Pulling my hair out over figures, captions, frames, andfloating/in-line distinctions

[courtney jennings]

This is more a software usability question than it is a developer question...sorry for my naivety but I've been trying to figure out a solution to this for the last 6 hours.

Document in Word 2007 with many images, tables and charts. At least a 1/3 of the figs/tbls are small and therefore need to "float" so that text can be wrapped around them. Every fig/tbl needs a caption, a source, and some may have additional information attached to them. It's a long document so there is a TOC, but the caption is the only part that needs to make it to the TOC. I would like the figs/tbls to be on the right adjacent with the right margin. So...how do I get the caption and other associated information to move with the fig/tbl?

Captions won't be read if I put them in text box. Every element within the frame (figure, caption, source, and add. info) has a different format style. The problem is that I need the frame to have a border box, but any border assigned to the frame actually winds up on the frame AND each of the individual elements in the frame, which isn't right and looks ridiculous.

I'm no developer but I think I'm more Office savvy than most, and I'm pretty resourceful as well...still I'm out of ideas. Can anyone please help me so I can move on to actually finishing this very long document. Please, please help me.


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[Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com]

For tables, add a cell that will contain the table caption and other
information. For figures, put the image in one cell of a table and the
caption and other information in a second cell--top or bottom, left or right
as you wish. In both cases you can set the text wrapping to none and
position the tables where you like. Cells can have their own borders,
shading, etc.

Note that in W2007, the TOC can read text inside text boxes.

Pam

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As Pam says, Word 2007 can see text in text boxes, but you can also still
use frames (which are backward-compatible); put the graphic and caption
together in a frame and they'll stick together.

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