Caption and styles

[Marco]

Word 2002

When I edit a picture [having a standard "Figure 999 - Bla
bla" caption below] and click on the "Caption..." right-
click menu

1. My previous caption is totally ignored, and Word will
add a new caption and shift all subsequent pictures down

2. If my "Caption" style is "Centered", I cannot edit the
Caption text in the dialog box for any picture, because
the cursor is positioned somewhere off the dialog box.

I don't want to use a Left-aligned "Caption" style and go
through the 200+ pictures in my manual putting
them "Caption + centered".

In Word 2000 this worked perfectly well (as many other...)

Does s'one offer a solution or is this a Word 2003 bug?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The paragraph alignment of captions is governed by the Caption style. Leave
it alone until you have inserted all your captions, then go to Format |
Style and change the Caption style to Centered.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[Marco]

Suzanne,

Thank you for your reply.

The document was originally generated on Word 2000
(currently 132 pages with 189 pictures and a lot of other
graphics) and has been ported to Word XP (with a lot of
trouble indeed, wish I never made the move...).

I've used this method:

- On the styles bar I've selected all instances of CAPTION.
- I have modified CAPTION back to be left-aligned.
- I have created a new style calle CAPTION + CENTERED
based on CAPTION and being centered
- Finally I have associated all selections to the new
style.

I do not like to use your method proposed, because it is a
work-around for a badly behaving Word XP. The dialog box
applies the CAPTION style in the dialog box also (probably
the input box is a rich text box instead of a plain text
box) using the full paragraph width as the textbox width
on the relatively small dialog box.
This is clearly a bug in Word XP (in Word 2000 works
properly). Just for fun, try increasing the CAPTION font
(20pt will do fine) and add a caption to a picture. The
dialog box becomes totally unusable.

My purpose is not to use modified base styles. I want to
use a few (base) styles only, and modify these styles to
my liking, with Word applying these styles in the
document, not in the user interface.

Thx again.

-----Original Message-----
The paragraph alignment of captions is governed by the Caption style. Leave
it alone until you have inserted all your captions, then go to Format |
Style and change the Caption style to Centered.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Word 2002

When I edit a picture [having a standard "Figure 999 - Bla
bla" caption below] and click on the "Caption..." right-
click menu

1. My previous caption is totally ignored, and Word will
add a new caption and shift all subsequent pictures down

2. If my "Caption" style is "Centered", I cannot edit the
Caption text in the dialog box for any picture, because
the cursor is positioned somewhere off the dialog box.

I don't want to use a Left-aligned "Caption" style and go
through the 200+ pictures in my manual putting
them "Caption + centered".

In Word 2000 this worked perfectly well (as many other...)

Does s'one offer a solution or is this a Word 2003 bug?

.