Word Document: Can I apply Figure Formats to a drawing Canvas?

[Rahul]

Hi,

I have a big document that I need to reformat since the original user had no
styles etc. applied to it which makes consistent formating, indexing etc. a
pain.

Now, keeping in mind the excellent sage-advice of several of the MVP's out
there I always try to format my document using styles for each Figure,
Heading etc.

Since word does not have an inbuilt style for Figures I usually add my own
style which allows me to do the nice stuff like keeping the Figure always
together with its underlying caption etc..

My current problem:

This user has cluttered his document with "Drawing Canvases" for all his
figures. I usually use Insert->Picture. Can I apply my Figure Formats to
drawing Canvases as well?

Are there any pitfalls I need to be aware of?

Or should I plod through the doc. and save each of his canvases as
image-files(jpegs gif whatever!), then reinsert them and reformat them?

Appreciate any advice on the matter!

Thanks!

-Rahul

 

[Stefan Blom]

Make sure the drawing canvas is positioned "In line with text"; then format
the paragraph into which it is inserted as "Keep with next" (Paragraph dialog
box) to keep it together with the following caption paragraph.