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December 4th, 2009, 07:06 PM
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Pictures in a document
Truly dumb question, it is just that my mind is an absolute blank
right now. I want to put pictures in a document. I want to have a caption and/or title for the picture and I want it clearly delimited from the text around it. Do I put it in a text box? I seem to recall a different technique, but I can't right now recall what it is. I'm having some difficulty getting to size the picture and the text box, so if there is another way I'd rather to it that way. Thanks and apologies for asking a Word 101 question. M 
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December 4th, 2009, 07:53 PM
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You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want
the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After to set it off from the Body Text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... Truly dumb question, it is just that my mind is an absolute blank right now. I want to put pictures in a document. I want to have a caption and/or title for the picture and I want it clearly delimited from the text around it. Do I put it in a text box? I seem to recall a different technique, but I can't right now recall what it is. I'm having some difficulty getting to size the picture and the text box, so if there is another way I'd rather to it that way. Thanks and apologies for asking a Word 101 question. M
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December 4th, 2009, 08:09 PM
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On Dec 4, 1:53*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After to set it off from the Body Text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... Truly dumb question, it is just that my mind is an absolute blank right now. I want to put pictures in a document. I want to have a caption and/or title for the picture and I want it clearly delimited from the text around it. Do I put it in a text box? I seem to recall a different technique, but I can't right now recall what it is. I'm having some difficulty getting to size the picture and the text box, so if there is another way I'd rather to it that way. Thanks and apologies for asking a Word 101 question. M Suzanne, that is helpful. I usually put the stuff in a text box. I tried the Help, but only got something about a drawing frame. Is there a link you can give me to where I can look into frames?
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December 4th, 2009, 08:33 PM
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If you are using Word 2007, you can add the Insert Frame command to the
Quick Access Toolbar: Right-click the ribbon and choose Customize Quick Access Toolbar. In the "All Commands" category, locate "Insert Frame." Click Add. Click OK to close the dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "MikeB" wrote in message ... On Dec 4, 1:53 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After to set it off from the Body Text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... Truly dumb question, it is just that my mind is an absolute blank right now. I want to put pictures in a document. I want to have a caption and/or title for the picture and I want it clearly delimited from the text around it. Do I put it in a text box? I seem to recall a different technique, but I can't right now recall what it is. I'm having some difficulty getting to size the picture and the text box, so if there is another way I'd rather to it that way. Thanks and apologies for asking a Word 101 question. M Suzanne, that is helpful. I usually put the stuff in a text box. I tried the Help, but only got something about a drawing frame. Is there a link you can give me to where I can look into frames?
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December 4th, 2009, 08:37 PM
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What version of Word? The only advantage of a frame over a text box is that
Word can't "see" text in a text box for the purpose of cross-references or the Table of Figures in Word 2003 and earlier (Word 2007 corrected this problem). And the only reason for using a frame OR a text box would be that you need to specify placement relative to the page and wrap text around the picture and caption. If the picture and caption are In Line With Text, you could put a border around both. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... On Dec 4, 1:53 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After to set it off from the Body Text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... Truly dumb question, it is just that my mind is an absolute blank right now. I want to put pictures in a document. I want to have a caption and/or title for the picture and I want it clearly delimited from the text around it. Do I put it in a text box? I seem to recall a different technique, but I can't right now recall what it is. I'm having some difficulty getting to size the picture and the text box, so if there is another way I'd rather to it that way. Thanks and apologies for asking a Word 101 question. M Suzanne, that is helpful. I usually put the stuff in a text box. I tried the Help, but only got something about a drawing frame. Is there a link you can give me to where I can look into frames?
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December 4th, 2009, 10:48 PM
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At the risk of providing too much information:
I'm using Word (Office) 2007. I've got a document giving the rules of chess. It is a rather dense 2- page document and it has a terribly high reading comprehension score (7.7 grade on the Flesch–Kincaid readability grade level). Since I want to adapt this for younger kids, I'd like to make it simpler and add a few diagrams. The diagrams are not large enough to take up the page width, so I'd like to place them on the left (or right) and wrap the text along the side. Perhaps a picture is worth a thoudand words. Here is a screen capture of a portion of my document. http://i50.tinypic.com/2qxql2w.jpg On Dec 4, 2:37*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What version of Word? The only advantage of a frame over a text box is that Word can't "see" text in a text box for the purpose of cross-references or the Table of Figures in Word 2003 and earlier (Word 2007 corrected this problem). And the only reason for using a frame OR a text box would be that you need to specify placement relative to the page and wrap text around the picture and caption. If the picture and caption are In Line With Text, you could put a border around both. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... On Dec 4, 1:53 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After to set it off from the Body Text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... Truly dumb question, it is just that my mind is an absolute blank right now. I want to put pictures in a document. I want to have a caption and/or title for the picture and I want it clearly delimited from the text around it. Do I put it in a text box? I seem to recall a different technique, but I can't right now recall what it is. I'm having some difficulty getting to size the picture and the text box, so if there is another way I'd rather to it that way. Thanks and apologies for asking a Word 101 question. M Suzanne, that is helpful. I usually put the stuff in a text box. I tried the Help, but only got something about a drawing frame. *Is there a link you can give me to where I can look into frames?
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December 4th, 2009, 11:16 PM
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In that case you definitely want a text box or frame. Since you have 2007, a
text box will be okay. Just put the illustration and caption together in the text box. I might be inclined to try omitting the line around it, however, just to see how it would look. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... At the risk of providing too much information: I'm using Word (Office) 2007. I've got a document giving the rules of chess. It is a rather dense 2- page document and it has a terribly high reading comprehension score (7.7 grade on the Flesch–Kincaid readability grade level). Since I want to adapt this for younger kids, I'd like to make it simpler and add a few diagrams. The diagrams are not large enough to take up the page width, so I'd like to place them on the left (or right) and wrap the text along the side. Perhaps a picture is worth a thoudand words. Here is a screen capture of a portion of my document. http://i50.tinypic.com/2qxql2w.jpg On Dec 4, 2:37 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What version of Word? The only advantage of a frame over a text box is that Word can't "see" text in a text box for the purpose of cross-references or the Table of Figures in Word 2003 and earlier (Word 2007 corrected this problem). And the only reason for using a frame OR a text box would be that you need to specify placement relative to the page and wrap text around the picture and caption. If the picture and caption are In Line With Text, you could put a border around both. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... On Dec 4, 1:53 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After to set it off from the Body Text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... Truly dumb question, it is just that my mind is an absolute blank right now. I want to put pictures in a document. I want to have a caption and/or title for the picture and I want it clearly delimited from the text around it. Do I put it in a text box? I seem to recall a different technique, but I can't right now recall what it is. I'm having some difficulty getting to size the picture and the text box, so if there is another way I'd rather to it that way. Thanks and apologies for asking a Word 101 question. M Suzanne, that is helpful. I usually put the stuff in a text box. I tried the Help, but only got something about a drawing frame. Is there a link you can give me to where I can look into frames?
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