captions to your pictures in MS Word
Posted by outsourcingseoservicesindia on November 6, 2008
Do you ever find yourself looking to add captions to your pictures in MS Word?
If you did a quick scan through the menus, you probably didn’t run across anything that looked helpful, but if you take a deeper look into the submenus, you’ll find that Word does have a caption feature. You just have to know where to look!
To begin, you need to select the picture, table, equation, etc. you want to caption.
For users of older versions of Word, go to the Insert menu, Reference submenu, Caption choice.
Word 2007 users can either right click on the selected item and choose Caption or go to the References tab on the ribbon and click on the Insert Caption button.
The Caption dialogue window will then open:
You can then choose what type of label you need (Figure, Equation, Table) or you can choose to create your own label with the New Label button.
I must warn you: this feature automatically numbers the label (you can alter how it numbers with the Numbering button) and you’ll have to wait until you’re back in your Word document to remove the number if that’s what you’re looking to do.
You can also choose where the caption should be located relative to the object, so don’t forget to make a selection in the Position field as well.
Click OK when you’re all done.
You’re then returned to your document where your caption is now visible!
At this point, you can click into the caption and do some more editing. For example, you could remove the number or change the font formatting.
I would also recommend you use the Shift key to select both the item and the caption simultaneously and then right click to group them. They’re obviously a matched set, so it makes sense to group them into one.
There you have it. The basics of Word’s caption feature in a nutshell!
~ April
