Thanks to Suzy and Judith for the 'style' solution - I'll keep this in mind for future work. Strict pagination on the current job demands mean only a v flexible method will work: so that (even) single lines don't get shuffled over to the next page. It takes more time to set up text boxes, but the absence of any 'template' in terms of position means I get exactly what I need on each page. From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judith Bluhm-Brown Sent: Monday, 8 September 2008 12:13 PM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: captioning Hi Matthew I set captions up as a style. Then they look uniform with one click. ________________________________ From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew da Silva Sent: Monday, 8 September 2008 7:12 AM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: captioning MS-Word 2007 captioning is not very flexible and I want just to use a series of text boxes containing plain text centred instead. Anyone else come across this shortcoming of MS-Word 2007? Did you arrive at a different solution? Information welcome. Matt