Hi Marrick,

Oh, I can handle shapes alright, it's just that relating them to captions is far from being reliable. Just consider what happens if you have a shape overlying another shape, an in-line shape or a table. Do both get captioned? And what about shapes sent behind text. Then there's the question of shapes in multi-column documents where the shape spans more than one column - where should the caption go?

A reliable way of ensuring shapes and their captions always remain together is to convert the shapes to inline (grouped beforehand, if necessary), then put them into a table, with the corresponding caption. The table's wrap format can then be set to 'around', which allows it to be positioned more or less as flexibly as a shape. Of course, this should be done up-front, or at least before any captions are applied to the shapes.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]