No. If you group a caption with a floating figure, the caption also becomes
a floating object in Word 2008. Keep a lookout for Word 2011 when it comes
out: this should be fixed in that version.
If the caption is a floating object, it is not physically in the main text
story.
Captions are numbered with SEQ fields that are set to a result at print time
based upon their position in the main text story. If they're not in the
main text story, the number will indeed be "0".
I usually go to great lengths to avoid floating pictures, because of the
complexity of managing them and the unreliability that results.
If you create two blank paragraphs in the document, then insert the picture
in one, formatted as "Inline with text" and the caption in the other, it
will all "just work", on both Mac and PC.
Use paragraph properties to position the picture, and apply "Keep with next"
to that paragraph so Word cannot separate it from its caption when the
pagination changes.
I have a style named "Graphics" that I create with the correct formatting
properties, so I never have to think about all this: I just create two
paragraphs, format on with Graphics style, the other with Caption style, and
it all just works.
In fact, I always use Word 2004 for production work because Word 2008 does
not have the functionality for serious jobs, so I have a macro that simply
asks me for the picture file, and creates and formats the paragraphs and the
picture.
Hope this helps
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
It is necessary for me to have figures in my documents with the layout
"Square", with captions grouped, because this is the way my supervisor insists
that documents are done. In my version of word, captions that are grouped
quickly revert from having real figure numbers, to all being labeled "Figure
0". The cross references in the text also all read "Figure 0". If I send these
documents to people with Windows machines, at first they show up with "Figure
0", but they can update the fields, and then they appear correctly.
Is there a way to still group my captions with the figures, and maintain
normal numbering on my own machine?(Changing my supervisor's mind about
grouping and square layout is not one of the options on the table.)
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