Frames, Styles and figures

[Sudders]

I've created a long document with lots of captioned figures. As th
figures were floating, so were all the cpations(in textboxes). So tha
meant that cross-referencing, table of figures etc. didn't wor
properly. So I converted the textboxes to frames. In order to keep th
figures with the captions I cut and pasted the figures into the frames
Fine, all worked well.

Except that whenever I cross-referenced a figure I got an image of th
figure. Huh? This was because the figure, now in-line, was in the Styl
'caption'. So I changed the style of the figure to normal ... and ..
the figure jumpped out of the frames and into the main body of text
Arrrgggghhhh .....

Its enough to make you want to use LaTeX.

Can anybody help?

Cheers,

Ian

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have to insert the figure (and I would advocate using a style
specifically defined for it) and then the caption (in the Caption style) and
then insert the frame around both. If you want the frame to be part of the
style, you could try making both the Caption and the Figure style framed,
being careful to set all the frame properties identically, but I'm not sure
this would work (I think you'd end up with two frames).

 

[Sudders]

Okay, so i've got the figures into frames with the captions and i
normal style...

* I still get copies of the figure in every place that I've cros
referenced them.

* If I go through and delete the cross references and re-insert, I al
works fine .. not copy of the image.

* If I Ctrl-A F9 to update all the fields, two things happen;
1) I get all my copies of the figures back with the cros
references
2) All the figures jump out of their frames again.

I want to cry...

 

[Sudders]

Thanks Susan,

I'd sorta already worked out it was going to involve re-inserting m
figures and redoing the captions and then framing the lots ...

This is going to take a long time - I have 17 figures, and each one i
referenced about 10 times ... When I delete the caption and insert
new one, all the references to it change to Error! ...

Fun, fun, fun.

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you want the frame to be part of the

style, you could try making both the Caption and the Figure style framed,
being careful to set all the frame properties identically, but I'm not
sure this would work (I think you'd end up with two frames).

I believe this works if one style is based on the other, so that the frame
formatting is "shared."

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for the extra tip, Stefan.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Make sure that each inline object and its caption is in a separate
paragraph. Otherwise, the object might very well be included in a
cross-reference.

Another thing to consider: When you add cross-references, Word encloses the
referenced item with a hidden bookmark. If you press Enter at the beginning
of a bookmarked item to insert a new paragraph, you are in fact adding the
paragraph inside the hidden bookmark, which would cause trouble with
cross-references. Instead, carefully add paragraphs by pressing Enter at the
end of the previous paragraph.