Keeping a Canvas/Image Connected to a Caption

[wolf_tracks]

When I add a caption to a canvas or image, it doesn't seem to take much to
disconnect them. How do I prevent that, or get them back together?
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Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person
over a lifetime:
Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can
Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars

-- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can insert both together in a frame or text box (with the caveats
already noted about text boxes and captions). If both are inline, you can
format whichever comes first as "Keep with next." This won't prevent you
from intentionally moving one or the other, but it will keep Word from
inserting a page break between them.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[wolf_tracks]

You can insert both together in a frame or text box (with the caveats
already noted about text boxes and captions). If both are inline, you
can format whichever comes first as "Keep with next." This won't prevent
you from intentionally moving one or the other, but it will keep Word
from inserting a page break between them.

A canvas within a canvas too? Frame? Is that a rectangle? "Alreay noted"? In
another thread (End Notes)? Putting them in text box sounds comfortable.

--
Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person
over a lifetime:
Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can
Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars

-- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[wolf_tracks]

A canvas within a canvas too? Frame? Is that a rectangle? "Already
noted"? In another thread (End Notes)? Putting them in text box sounds
comfortable.

Well, I see I didn't quite get it. I succeeded by using a canvas to insert
the pair. Even though I used tight format with left, maybe other is better,
Word had a mind of its own about where I could put the canvas.

It looks as though if I change the size of a canvas to 50%, then to get it
back to its original size, I must use 100%. Too bad there isn't a way to
just say original size please. Undo won't do here, since I may have written
more when I've changed my mind about the size of the canvas.

--
Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person
over a lifetime:
Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can
Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars

-- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't have much experience using drawing canvases, as I usually draw
without a canvas, and most of the graphics I insert are charts, pictures, or
other objects created as external files rather than drawings created in
Word. The drawing canvas is a different sort of beast, but I think a caption
inserted in the canvas (even if the canvas is inline) may still be invisible
to the TOF.

The frame discussion, which I thought was with you, explained how to find
the Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar and noted that text in a frame
(unlike in a text box) is in the text layer and can be seen by the TOF. You
can wrap text around a frame; though the wrapping options are not as many as
for text boxes, they should be adequate for figures.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[wolf_tracks]

I don't have much experience using drawing canvases, as I usually draw
without a canvas, and most of the graphics I insert are charts,
pictures, or other objects created as external files rather than
drawings created in Word. The drawing canvas is a different sort of
beast, but I think a caption inserted in the canvas (even if the canvas
is inline) may still be invisible to the TOF.

The frame discussion, which I thought was with you, explained how to
find the Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar and noted that text in
a frame (unlike in a text box) is in the text layer and can be seen by
the TOF. You can wrap text around a frame; though the wrapping options
are not as many as for text boxes, they should be adequate for figures.

It's been interesting. When one puts an image and a figure(in a canvas) into
a canvas, and tightens the size of the canvas, it gets tricky figuring out
which graphic box is the right one: canvas or text.

I've found using a text box for captions is the best way to go. I can use
Insert, Reference->Caption, and it seems to work well. There seems to be
some bleeding of the canvas to underlying text, even in tight format, if the
canvas has too much margin. Sometimes I find myself dragging the figure
image rather than the whole canvas! Yikes.

Actually, I don't think I need to TOF, and my editor scrapped the idea of
using end notes for references.

Don't see a Forms toolbar.

Any comment on my second question regarding changing the size of the canvas
back to it's original size?

--
Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person
over a lifetime:
Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can
Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars

-- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As I said, I have no experience with the drawing canvas. If you right-click
on any toolbar, you should get the toolbar menu, which includes Forms.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org