• Q1 charts copied into word doc loose the frame (or border) at the bottom when there is a caption attached? I have gone in a deleted spaces beneath the chart and added spaces beneath the chart to get my bottom border back...it comes and it goes ...what on earth is the setting or rule that causes this to be flaky but imagine it to an operator error?
• Q2 what causes a caption beneath a chart to sometimes be inside a manipulable text box and other times not? I like the box since I can grab the handles and move it
• System is enterprise >office 2007

Hi Rekitson,

I suspect the issue has something to do with how you're inserting the chart (including the layout) & caption. Without seeing the affected part of your document, it's hard to diagnose, though. Can you attach a document to a post with that (delete anything sensitive)? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab.

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I believe I have uploaded a chart sans a bottom border. My solution (that often works but not always) is to increase border size 1.50. I reuse a base document which is 19 pages long.

Add new "objects" (charts, tables, figures) makes 2007 seize and loose old formats which once worked.

Older versions used in my past worked. We are on 2007 now not mixing versions.
Here is what once worked like clockwork. Same premise base document 19 pages. Rename document copy paste new chart over old chart and it took the formats and went forward.

I'd go update caption update it with the new location and I was done.
2007 word/excel won't do that. 2007 requires > delete the old chart then paste in >new chart > might be able to just change caption verbiage but then maybe not

I spend a lot of time fiddling with fixes to formatting please teach me a better way...surely it exists.

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The fix for your chart, which is laid out 'in-line', is to format it's paragraph with a 0.5pt trailing space - the 0pt space isn't leaving any room for the border. Alternatively, you could replace the paragraph mark following the chart with a manual line break and give the paragraph a 1.03 multiple line spacing.

The table is laid our with 'around' wrapping and the text following it is within a textbox, so the positioning of each is independent of the other. If you lay the table out with no wrapping and put the text into the body of the document, there will be no problem with the table border. To keep the table and its caption on the same page, apply the 'keep with next' paragraph format to the whole of column 1 (I'd also replace the caption's paragraph break with a manual line break).

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