Captions

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Adding a Caption
Need to add a caption after a document element such as a figure or table? You can add and format one manually, or you can instruct Word to add and format a caption for you.

Adding Caption Labels
When using the captioning capabilities of Word, you aren't limited to the three default caption labels provided in the program. You can, in fact, get as creative with caption labels as you desire. Here's how to create your own specialized caption labels.

Automatically Adding Captions
Word can automatically add captions to various elements of your document, such as tables or figures. Here's how to configure the program to make the additions for you.

Changing Caption Numbering Styles
Using Word's captioning feature can be a great boon for automatically numbering certain elements in your documents. It might not be immediately apparent, however, how you go about changing the numbering style used by Word. Here's the steps you need.

Changing Defaults for Text Boxes and Callouts
One of the great uses to which you can put Word's AutoText feature is to provide "default" text boxes and callouts. This tip explains why you might want to do that, and how to go about doing it.

Changing Existing Captions
Word allows you to automatically create captions for various elements of your document, such as figures and tables. These captions are added automatically when you add the element. If you want to later make changes to the captions, you'll need to apply the techniques described in this tip.

Deleting Caption Labels
How to get rid of labels you added to your captions.

Formatting Captions
When you add captions to elements in your document, Word allows you to modify how those captions are formatted. Here's how you can do it.

Turning Off Automatic Captioning
Word can be configured so that it automatically adds captions to some of your design elements (tables, figures, etc.). Once this capability is turned on, you may later want to turn it off. Here's how.