Want Picture Caption without a Label or Numbering

[Peter Reaper]

I would like to put a caption under an image (a photo), but I don't want
the caption to have a label or any auto-numbering.

Steps: right-click on an image in a Word document / Caption...

I know I can de-select "exclude label from caption" to get rid of the
label (e.g., "Figure"), but how to I tell Word to not also add a number?

Thank you!
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you don't need a label or numbering, then you don't need the caption
feature. Just type the caption as an ordinary text paragraph, applying the
Caption paragraph style if desired.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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[Peter Reaper]

Suzanne S. Barnhill said on 12.01.2009 16:34:

If you don't need a label or numbering, then you don't need the caption
feature. Just type the caption as an ordinary text paragraph, applying the
Caption paragraph style if desired.

I can do that. But this might not work for when e.g., the caption is to
be left aligned with the image (difficult if the image is centered or
custom-placed), and for the caption to "stick" to the image (and not
have the image at the bottom of one page and the caption at the top of
the next page).

I might be able to get around this via SHIFT+ENTER (to left-align) and
marking the image "paragraph as "Keep with next" (to make it "stick").

But it would be a lot simpler if Word allowed to create a caption
without numbering. --> Enhancement request!?

Thanks for your time!
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Peter Reaper

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A caption in an ordinary text paragraph is no different from any other text
paragraph in this regard. And if you are inserting captions for wrapped
pictures, then they are being inserted in text boxes, which (in Word 2003
and earlier) won't work, anyway, as the Table of Figures can't see them. An
alternative is to make both picture and caption inline and then put both in
a frame.

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[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Peter

But it would be a lot simpler if Word allowed to create a caption
without numbering. --> Enhancement request!?

alternatively to what Suzanne is writing, you can also (with
InlinePictures) create a paragraph style for the pictures and set it to
"Keep with Next."

That way, it will stick to the caption paragraph (unless the pictures
fills an entire page, of course).

HTH
Robert