Pictures in a document

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MikeB

Truly dumb question, it is just that my mind is an absolute blank
right now.

I want to put pictures in a document. I want to have a caption and/or
title for the picture and I want it clearly delimited from the text
around it. Do I put it in a text box? I seem to recall a different
technique, but I can't right now recall what it is.

I'm having some difficulty getting to size the picture and the text
box, so if there is another way I'd rather to it that way.

Thanks and apologies for asking a Word 101 question.

M
 
You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want
the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different
style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After to
set it off from the Body Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want
the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different
style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After to
set it off from the Body Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
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Suzanne, that is helpful. I usually put the stuff in a text box. I
tried the Help, but only got something about a drawing frame. Is
there a link you can give me to where I can look into frames?
 
If you are using Word 2007, you can add the Insert Frame command to the
Quick Access Toolbar: Right-click the ribbon and choose Customize Quick
Access Toolbar. In the "All Commands" category, locate "Insert Frame." Click
Add. Click OK to close the dialog box.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want
the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different
style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After
to
set it off from the Body Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
Click to expand...

Suzanne, that is helpful. I usually put the stuff in a text box. I
tried the Help, but only got something about a drawing frame. Is
there a link you can give me to where I can look into frames?
 
What version of Word? The only advantage of a frame over a text box is that
Word can't "see" text in a text box for the purpose of cross-references or
the Table of Figures in Word 2003 and earlier (Word 2007 corrected this
problem). And the only reason for using a frame OR a text box would be that
you need to specify placement relative to the page and wrap text around the
picture and caption. If the picture and caption are In Line With Text, you
could put a border around both.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

You can put picture and caption together in a frame, but if you just want
the caption to be distinct from the surrounding text, apply a different
style (perhaps using a different font) and use enough Space Before/After
to
set it off from the Body Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
Click to expand...

Suzanne, that is helpful. I usually put the stuff in a text box. I
tried the Help, but only got something about a drawing frame. Is
there a link you can give me to where I can look into frames?
 
At the risk of providing too much information:

I'm using Word (Office) 2007.

I've got a document giving the rules of chess. It is a rather dense 2-
page document and it has a terribly high reading comprehension score
(7.7 grade on the Flesch–Kincaid readability grade level). Since I
want to adapt this for younger kids, I'd like to make it simpler and
add a few diagrams.

The diagrams are not large enough to take up the page width, so I'd
like to place them on the left (or right) and wrap the text along the
side.

Perhaps a picture is worth a thoudand words. Here is a screen capture
of a portion of my document. http://i50.tinypic.com/2qxql2w.jpg
 
In that case you definitely want a text box or frame. Since you have 2007, a
text box will be okay. Just put the illustration and caption together in the
text box. I might be inclined to try omitting the line around it, however,
just to see how it would look.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

At the risk of providing too much information:

I'm using Word (Office) 2007.

I've got a document giving the rules of chess. It is a rather dense 2-
page document and it has a terribly high reading comprehension score
(7.7 grade on the Flesch–Kincaid readability grade level). Since I
want to adapt this for younger kids, I'd like to make it simpler and
add a few diagrams.

The diagrams are not large enough to take up the page width, so I'd
like to place them on the left (or right) and wrap the text along the
side.

Perhaps a picture is worth a thoudand words. Here is a screen capture
of a portion of my document. http://i50.tinypic.com/2qxql2w.jpg
 
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