How do Word 2010 captions work?

Question

I'm trying to insert caption next to images in a document and I can't make sense of numbering.

For example the numbers of the illustrations go like this: 1, 5, 3, 2, 4, 7, 6 when I list the images from the start of the document to the end.

How should I solve this?

Answer 1

Could it be that you need to update the fields? Try this:

1. Press Ctrl+A to select all data in the document

2. Press F9 to update all fields

Hopefully the automatically generated numbers are now in the correct order.

Answer 2

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1. Click the graphic. The graphic becomes selected.

2. From the References tab’s Captions group, click the Insert Caption button. A caption frame is placed below the graphic, and the Captions dialog box appears.

3. In the Caption text box, type the figure caption text. You can remove any text that’s already there.

4. Select a position for the caption from the Position drop-down list. The caption position is relative to the figure.

5. Click the OK button. The dialog box closes, and the caption is applied to the figure.

6. If you want to change the caption, simply click the mouse in the caption text box and type a new caption.

Click anywhere outside the text box when you're done.

7. To remove a caption, click the caption text box once to select it, and then press the Delete key.

The caption disappears.

Remember: The caption itself is a special type of text box, which is like a graphic image but contains text. It’s not grouped with the image, so if you move or resize the image, you have to move or resize the caption box, as well.