Suzanne
Mon Dec 25 09:27:08 CST 2006
Word can certainly "see" captions in tables (for TOC/TOF purposes), and it
should be able to autocaption in tables as well. Certainly you can select a
picture in a table and use Insert | Reference | Caption; the caption is
inserted as an ordinary text paragraph below the picture. Caption numbering
will run across the table row, then down the column. If you need to have
numbering flow down the columns, you can use a single-column table in
newspaper-style columns.
A word of warning: if you try to insert a caption in a table *without*
selecting a picture, Word selects the entire table and tries to caption
that.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message
news:FE9BB0F0-215A-4FD1-91CF-C8F2BFFEF3EF@microsoft.com...
> It is sometime since I used Word 2000, but your deduction about ToCs or
ToFs
> not working in tables may not be correct. They definitely don't work in
Text
> Boxes, as Text Boxes are in a different level than the text (likewise
> anything in a Header of Footer).
>
> What may help you is now that you know that you can directly insert a
Frame
> and place your picture inside it which saves you several repetitive steps.
> But did you know that you can Copy a frame by simply holding down the
> Control Key and click/dragging the edge of the Frame to copy to a new
> location. So if you create and edit a frame so that it is just the size
and
> location you need, you can copy it to another location so that it is
> identical? This will save you much time making sure that each Frame is
> correctly formatted.
>
> I would also suggest that if most of you pictures are going to be the same
> or similar in size, you could create a three-column page of (empty) frames
> and (dummy) captions and save the whole caboose as an AutoText entry. Then
> after finishing a page, you can start a new page by inserting the AutoText
> of the (empty) frames and (dummy) captions. Even if you have to make small
> adjustments for slightly different sized pictures, it should still save
> loads of time.
>
> Terry
>
> "Webrider" <Webrider@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:85FC88A5-341D-439A-906D-C2F4D2F7D284@microsoft.com...
> > "Terry Farrell" wrote:
> >
> >> As Suzanne has suggested, this is definitely a task for a Table using
> >> fixed
> >> Height Rows and fixed Width columns. I don't recommend making it a
> >> continuous table but create a new table for each page (note that once
you
> >
> > Thanks for your input. As I responded to Suzanne, I don't know that
tables
> > support automatic TOC (I meant to say TOF) captioning. That is why I
never
> > looked into tables. I have lots of table experience in web design using
> > Dreamweaver. Could one of you tell me that Word Tables supports
automatic
> > TOF
> > using captions within the tables?
> >
> >> Also, if there are going to be many photos in the document, I find it
> >> best
> >> to edit them to the correct size and resolution before inserting them
> >> into
> >
> > I am using the same pictures and drawings for HTML website use and book
> > hardcopy use. The pictures get resized, optomized and exported to a
> > seperate
> > folder using Fireworks; for the website.
> >
> > The book requires 1200DPI resolution because of house plan drawing
> > requirements, and the fact that I want quality photo resolution in the
> > book.
> > Hey, anything worth doing is worth doing right. I also want a PDF book
> > copy
> > of the hardcopy which can zoom down to 1200DPI resolution. I understand
> > about
> > the screen resolution of 75DPI, but when you PDF zoom in on a drawing,
the
> > drawing has to have the resolution for reading very small dimensioning
> > details.
> >
> > The book will be published from the PDF files, which is another reason
for
> > 1200DPI resolution.
> >
> > Many of my building site pictures have more than one interesting topic
to
> > exploit. So I decided to crop on the fly to expand that portion of the
> > picture that relates to the topic at hand. Then later I expand on
another
> > portion of the same picture. The penality here seems to be in file size
> > requirements for the unneeded portion of the picture. The initial
penality
> > was learning how to crop in frames, but I now have that down to a
science.
> > The resulting file size doesn't really matter for publishing
requirements.
> >
> > Yes I am a newbie to Word complex use, and I have made many trips to the
> > VBA
> > websites which have helped a lot. Word performs very well with this copy
> > of
> > the book and my only remaining heartburn is the randomness of placing
> > frame
> > boxes. The frame parameters seem to vary without reason and the anchor
> > location seems to initially place without reason. Once you modify the
> > frame
> > parameters then they hold if you have a picture inside the frame and the
> > picture has a caption assigned.
> >
> > Section breaks still bother me somewhat. I understand the concepts, but
> > adding or deleting these section breaks can prove quite exciting with
> > unexpected results. I think the three columns may be a factor here. I do
> > know
> > that three columns really makes the frame anchor initial placement act
> > very
> > strangely.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>