atw: Re: captioning
- From: "Christine Kent" <c.bkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:11:51 +1000
I gave up with captioning in 2007 - just couldn't get the numbers working
properly unless I did the whole lot right at the end once I had finished the
document, and started at the start, and numbered them in sequence. Too much
fuss, so I pretty much do it the way Suzie suggested.
To create a new style in 2007, you just format the text the way you want it,
right click, and click Styles, Save Selection as a new quick style.
I have "Para Keep With Next" on my quick access toolbar and use it regularly
to control pagination where Keep With Next is not part of the style. So you
could have the caption under the graphic and click Keep With Next on the
graphic to manually attach the two (presuming you don't want to set a
special graphic style that includes a keep with next command).
If you don't know how to set up your quick access toolbar, go to
http://christinekent.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-set-up-your-quick-access-to
olbar.html
Further to Suzie's advice you are talking about creating building blocks,
not autotext. For instructions on this go to
http://christinekent.blogspot.com/2008/08/where-did-autotext-go_12.html .
If you need to organise your styles, go to
http://christinekent.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-organise-your-styles-s-o-yo
u.html
If any of you use any of them, and they let you down in any way, please feel
free to post a comment telling me what is wrong. They are all very quickly
written and untested.
Christine
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SUNTER Bede
Sent: Monday, 8 September 2008 3:40 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: captioning
Matthew,
Another tip:
Create a style called 'Image' (say). In the style specification, set
Format/Paragraph/Line and page breaks to 'Keep with next'.
Provided your caption is under your image, the image and the caption will
always be on the same page.
Of course, if your caption is above your image, apply 'keep with next' to
the Caption style instead.
Bede
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew da Silva
Sent: Monday, 8 September 2008 2:21 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: captioning
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.
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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
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