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Hi Jeff

Jeff wrote:
I only recently discovered frames which is why I asked the question since they add complexity, and yes I am running text around the frames and their captions. The illustrations are mostly photographs. I insert them into Word using Insert/picture/from file. Is that the best way to do it?

OK, if you want text flowing around, you need to use either a table cell or a frame. A textbox won't do, beceause Word has a habit of not "finding" the captions in there (which makes your table of figures rather useless! :-)).

A frame might not lend as many options concerning "flow-around", but it has another benefit that tables don't offer: you can make a frame part of a style, say, the Caption style. Type your caption text, apply the style (which frames it and positions the frame in the predefined way), then, with your cursor at the start of the frame, insert (from file) the picture.

Greetinx
Robert
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