Re: Insert pictures - caption query

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From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:26:07 -0600

Borders can be applied to frames and/or to paragraphs in frames. It sounds
as if your caption paragraph has somehow acquired a border. 

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"Benny" <ple@se.reply.to.newsgroup.only> wrote in message
news:OtpRHeWAEHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Suzanne and other interested parties.
> Aha! I think I know where I have been going wrong. I need to specifically
> select the frame, with the picture and its caption inside, then use Format
> Frame to place it against the right margin or wherever  ... I think I must
> have just been trying to select and move the  picture only.
> One more little oddity- I insert picture in-line, put a frame around it,
> then right-click to caption. The caption appears in the frame as required,
> under the picture, but the caption is outlined with a black line that does
> not seem to be selectable. I can give the picture a border OK, or give the
> entire frame a border if I want to, but can I do the reverse and remove
the
> border from the caption-  preferably specify that I don't get a border
> around it in the first place?
> --
> Benny
> *******
> (Using Word 2003, Win XP Pro)
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%23f$%234ZTAEHA.2484@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > When the picture is in a frame, it must be In Line with Text. You wrap
> text
> > around the frame rather than around the picture; you can't wrap the text
> in
> > the frame around the picture.
> >
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > Words into Type
> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> > Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org
> > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
> so
> > all may benefit.
> >
> > "Benny" <ple@se.reply.to.newsgroup.only> wrote in message
> > news:uahPaUNAEHA.2808@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > I have just upgraded from Word 97 to Word 2003. I'm working on a long
> > > document, into which I now want to put several hundred pictures. Each
> > > picture will have a caption, which must be linked to a table of
contents
> > (or
> > > table of pictures). I have tried inserting the picture in-line>create
a
> > > frame around it> caption, so the caption stays in the same frame.
> However
> > if
> > > I then try to be tricky, like floating the picture so I can wrap text
> > around
> > > it, the picture sometimes leaps outside the margins or otherwise fails
> to
> > > behave itself.
> > > The online help for W2003 does not seem to offer a procedure - or
maybe
> I
> > > missed it. Is there a simple solution? I know I could leave all the
> > pictures
> > > in-line, but I'd like to get the end result looking nicer than that.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Benny
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>

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