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Caption titles randomly turning into frames and moving in document
Please help! I'm on a deadline and I have a 500 page document with 200+ figures and 50+ tables.
Some of the caption headers in the document have randomly decided to become frames (I'm used to seeing them as text boxes). They are also right justifying relative to the page. I have no idea why this is happening. And every time I open the document or update the fields/captions, new caption headers decide to do this. I have already tried recreating the document (pasting it into a blank template), but it did not help. I have never seen this before. Does anyone know how to fix this? Stop it? Thank you. |
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Are all captions using the same paragraph style? If you select an errant caption and press Ctrl-Q, does it lose the frame? What about a good caption, does it gain a frame when you press Ctrl-Q?
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Andrew Lockton Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia |
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Could you save a couple of pages with problem captions and post it here so we can look at it.
How to attach a screenshot or file in this forum. |
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I made them all with the caption style, and they are cross-referenced throughout the report. Ctrl-Q seems to have no effect on any caption -- good or bad. |
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How about Ctrl+Spacebar?
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Nope. No luck.
I can go in and manually move them (and hope they stay -- even with the anchor). I just have no idea why some caption text became a frame and some did not. I can't publicly post any screenshots/pages. Thanks for trying to help. |
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When a graphic is positioned using any of the layout options other than the "In Line with Text" option (for the purpose of flowing text around the graphic), Word inserts the caption in a text box, left justified. You can press Ctrl+E to center the caption within the text box. That's just the way Word works; I can find no way around this behavior.
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I expect that these are textboxes, not frames. The two are different. Frames and Textboxes in Microsoft Word If you need an illustration/figure to not be in-line-with-text, put it in a one-cell table before you add the caption. In the table, it should be in-line-with text, the table itself can have text wrapping around it. Then add the caption. It will be left-justified inside the table cell. |
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As others have said, Word puts the caption in a text box, if the object for which you are creating a caption is NOT "In line with text." The easiest way around this is to put your figures and tables "In line with text" and have the caption in the main body of the document.
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