Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Automatically Adding Captions.
Captions are often used in magazine and book publishing around specific items, such as figures or tables. For instance, you may want to include a caption for all your tables that says "Table" and then a number for the table, as in "Table 3." Word can automate this task for you by adding captions whenever you insert a table or some other object in your document.
To configure Word so it automatically adds captions, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The AutoCaption dialog box.
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2020-04-16 06:26:05
Pratik Kataria
Hello Sir,
How can I auto caption for images that I am copy-pasting in a batch?
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