[mso] Re: Picture Captions
- From: "Brian Lightfoot" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:01:43 -0700
Thanks for that tip which I clearly remember how it works from Word 97-2003.
However, as I mentioned, I'm using Word 2007 and although your idea sounds
logically correct, I just cannot implement it that way under Word 2007.
The Select Tool exists under the Home Tab and offers Select All, Select
Objects, or Select Text with Similar Formatting. In this case, I feel the
Select Objects would be the correct choice. Using the resultant arrow shaped
tool allows me to draw a dotted line rectangle around an image and its
caption text box but as soon as I release the mouse button the dotted line
disappears.
To make things more difficult, Microsoft decided to put the Group Tool
button on the Page Layout tab and another one also appears on the Picture
Formatting tab but they are always grayed out as if no selection has ever
been made. I recall from previous versions that one could also right-click
on the selected objects and then pick Group from the resultant context menu
box that would appear but of course seemingly being unable to select
multiple objects, that choice never appears for me.
Can someone using Word 2007 also confirm this behavior? Just drop any image
on a page, right click and choose Insert Caption. Just hit OK for the
default "Figure 1". Then try the selection arrow to see if you can lasso
them together.
Maybe I need to get a new rope to make my lasso work. :-)
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jonathan Drawer
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:42 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Picture Captions
Using the Select (arrow shape) tool drag a box completely around the image
and the text or caption box so both are selected. Then Group the items
together. You should then set the Properties of the resulting Group as you
need, such as how to handle Wordwrap. This works with any number of images,
text boxes, lines, etc. that can be constructed using the Drawing Tools.
After Selecting and Grouping the objects then you may need to click on the
Select tool to unselect it to continue with editing.
Jonathan
Brian Lightfoot <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I'm using Word 2007 but I
believe this problem probably extends to previous
versions as well. Its bugged me for a long time and I have yet to find any
solution or work-around for the problem.
Is there any way of locking together an image and a caption box so that they
move in unison if any preceding text anywhere in the document is revised?
Otherwise, the photo and the text box can become separated by several
paragraphs resulting in a formatting mess if they were set up for
text-wrapping.
Brian
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