This is strange.



I have a bunch of figures in my document. I am creating captions for them. I select the image, click "insert caption" and follow the instructions.

Sometimes when I do this, the caption appears as a line of text within the regular text flow, above the image.

Sometimes when I do this, the caption appears inside a separate text box, that is isolated from the rest of the text, above the image.

When I want to create a cross reference to a figure, the list of figures that appears in the "create cross reference" dialog has two sections.... the ones that are inline text appear first, and then the ones that are in text boxes. So they are out of order.

Luckily this does not affect the List of Figures; the list is in the right order and does not pay attention to the two types of captions.

However, the two types of captions look different in the document. the ones in the text boxes are higher up above the figure.

I would like to understand why there are two types and make them all the same for consistency purposes.

I have tried a few things but nothing seems to work.

Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting the two types of captions and what I could do to make them all the same (I prefer the inline text type because it appears right above the figure).

Thank you.
Gary Beckwith
Technical Writer for IBM