If your image insertion is set to something other than "Inline with text",
Word creates the image in a floating text box by default.
If you click a floating image and add a Caption using the caption command,
Word creates the caption in a floating text box also.
So they're both in text boxes, you just didn't know it
The advantage of placing the image and caption in a text box is that that
allows both to float. You cannot "group" objects that are "Inline with
text" because they are in the text layer, not the graphics layer, and
they're part of the text, not the graphics space.
Other than that, no, there is no advantage. In fact the reverse: text boxes
are to be avoided if possible, because they can be very difficult to manage
in large, complex documents.
Cheers
Thanks, John! In a test I did, I was able to successfully group images and
captions so they would move together. This leads to a couple of questions,
though:
1. You mention that "both must
be in a text box before you can group them". I noticed I was able to group
images and their captions without first putting them in a text box, so I must
be misunderstanding something.
2. Speaking of text boxes, is there any other advantage to first putting an
image and a caption in one before grouping them?
Thanks for the guidance.
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