Word should let me put Equation captions in-line

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I want to be able to put equation captions in-line with the text when I put
my equations in-line. When I opt to place the captions above or below, and
then cut & paste them into place in the sentence, things can get quite messed
up.
 
I want to be able to put equation captions in-line with the
text when I put my equations in-line. When I opt to
place the captions above or below, and then cut & paste
them into place in the sentence, things can get quite
messed up.
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In Word, click on Tools > Options. Click on the Edit tab. There
are two drop-down boxes. The bottom one of the two is labeled
"Insert/paste pictures as:". Make sure the option is set to "In
line with text". Click OK.

The above answer is appropriate for Word 2002 (Office XP) and
Word 2003. If you're using an earlier version of Word, it won't
apply. In the future, please include your version of Word when
asking help questions.
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Sorry, I should have specified that I'm using Word 2003.

I found the drop-down menu, but it doesn't address my particular issue. What
I would like for an option to place the caption text that's associated with
an equation (or, I suppose, image, table, etc.) to the left or right of the
object.

So it would be something like:
It's important to remember that [a = b + c] [Equation 1] because we'll refer
to this in the future.

[a = b + c] is the equation object and [Equation 1] is the label text with
the nice automatically generated number that can be updated if I rearrange
things.

As it stands right now, I have to have the equation on its own line, and
then the caption on a line above or below it.

There's probably not much I can do about this in the existing version of
Word. I was led to this dicussion board by a "request a feature" form. All I
really wanted to do was suggest something to Microsoft, but once they pushed
me here I figured I'd post my wish anyway.
 
As it stands right now, I have to have the equation on its own
line, and then the caption on a line above or below it.
Click to expand...

There's no easy way to do that with Equation Editor. OTOH, the
professional version of Equation Editor -- MathType -- lets you
do that quite easily. It also lets you insert equation references
in your document text, with the references linked to the equation
numbers. The linking means that if you add or remove a numbered
equation, you don't have to manually update the numbers.

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evaluation, at the link in my signature.
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Insert a two-column borderless table. Put your equation in the left cell and
the caption in the right. You may want to create a dummy equation and
caption and save the whole shebang as an AutoText entry.

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Fairhope, Alabama USA

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th77 said:
Sorry, I should have specified that I'm using Word 2003.

I found the drop-down menu, but it doesn't address my particular issue. What
I would like for an option to place the caption text that's associated with
an equation (or, I suppose, image, table, etc.) to the left or right of the
object.

So it would be something like:
It's important to remember that [a = b + c] [Equation 1] because we'll refer
to this in the future.

[a = b + c] is the equation object and [Equation 1] is the label text with
the nice automatically generated number that can be updated if I rearrange
things.

As it stands right now, I have to have the equation on its own line, and
then the caption on a line above or below it.

There's probably not much I can do about this in the existing version of
Word. I was led to this dicussion board by a "request a feature" form. All I
really wanted to do was suggest something to Microsoft, but once they pushed
me here I figured I'd post my wish anyway.

Bob Mathews said:
In Word, click on Tools > Options. Click on the Edit tab. There
are two drop-down boxes. The bottom one of the two is labeled
"Insert/paste pictures as:". Make sure the option is set to "In
line with text". Click OK.

The above answer is appropriate for Word 2002 (Office XP) and
Word 2003. If you're using an earlier version of Word, it won't
apply. In the future, please include your version of Word when
asking help questions.
--
Bob Mathews (e-mail address removed)
Director of Training 830-990-9699
http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType 5
Design Science, Inc. -- "How Science Communicates"
MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide
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