Captions

Captions

Ever find yourself looking to add captions to your pictures in MS Word? If you did a quick scan of the menus, you probably didn't run across anything that looked helpful, but if you take a deeper look into the submenus, you'll find that Word does have a caption feature. You just have to know where to look. To begin, you need to select the picture, table, equation, etc. that you want to caption. Now, go to the Insert menu, Reference submenu, Caption choice. The Caption window will open looking like this:

It's here that you can choose what type of label you need: Figure, Equation, Table, or you can choose to create your own label with the New Label button. I must warn you that this feature automatically numbers the label (You can alter how it numbers with the Numbering button) and you'll have to wait until you're back in your Word document to remove the number. You can also choose where the caption should be located relative to the object, so don't forget to make a selection in the Position field too. Click OK when you're done. You're returned to your document where your caption should now be, where you requested. At this point, you can click into the caption and do some more editing. For example, you could remove the number or change the font formatting. I would also recommend that you use the Shift key to select both the item and the caption simultaneously, then right click to group them. They obviously are a matched set, so it makes sense to group them into one.

An Alternate Picture Caption If you find the above annoying try the next tip below using Text Box. To begin, draw a Text Box in your document. Then, with the cursor inside the Text Box, insert your picture or draw a chart. With the item in the Text Box, you're ready to click either before or after the item. This makes it possible to add your caption text either above or below the object. You will find that you can format text as usual and even find that you can click on the picture and change its placement with something like a center justify (just like text) Formatting the Text Box itself works as usual too, including resizing, border lines, text wrapping around the box, etc. The key here is that by inserting an item and text into the Text Box, they are automatically linked as a single item with no extra work to make it happen.

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