Positioning Images and Captions in MSW07

[OfficeAnimal]

I have tried inserting images and captions in a document without using a Frame. I don't see any way to put them where I want them, keep them together, insert them in columns etc.

The positions Picture Tools -> Position offers don't take columns into account, neither are they available if you want the caption to stay with the image.

Neither can I find a way to anchor the image and caption so they will stay on one page while more text is added above them.

Are there ways to deal with this or are Frames still the solution?

 

[macropod]

Hi OfficeAnimal,

All the tools to do what you want are right there, on the Picture Tools Ribbon. You can certainly format the position of a floating image (ie an image formatted as 'square' or 'tight') relative to the column it's in (see under Picture Tools|Text Wrapping|Picture Position).

If you move the anchor of a floating image to a particular paragraph (eg the caption para), you can lock the image to that paragraph, so they stay together (see under Picture Tools|Text Wrapping|Picture Position > Lock Anchor). Conversly, if you format the image as 'in line with text' and place it in the caption paragraph, that'll keep them together also.

As for keeping a set of images together, that's what grouping is for, but is only applicable to floating autoshapes. You can put other image types into a textbox, though.

These tools have existed since Word 97, in much the same form as they appear in Word 2007.


Cheers
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[OfficeAnimal]

Hi macropod

I don't know what you expect when you talk about the caption and the image "staying together". For me, staying together means that the caption will stay adjacent to the image it refers to, and directly below it (directly above a Table).

I can get the image to move, but the caption stays where it went originally. Nice caption, but what it refers to is not obvious.

 

[macropod]

Hi OfficeAnimal,

You evidently haven't mastered anchoring an image to a particular paragraph, something that's fairly basic and has existed since Word '97 - and earlier IIRC.

I suggest stepping through the process outlined in my last post. See also:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051899251033.aspx

http://word.tips.net/Pages/T001743_Pictures_Move_on_their_Own.html

and

http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/documentation/fine-tuning-graphics/fine-tuning-graphics.pdf

Cheers
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[OfficeAnimal]

Hi macropod

No, I have only bothered to anchor frames. These images with funny little tails with little dots hanging on the end are only aberrations.

I'll read those documents with interest.

Thanks