keeping graphics inside the margins

[Billy Boy]

I am assemblying a manual and trying to keep the bigger 'screenshots' in
their correct position. Sometimes they are where they should be, other times
they are hangin' over the top and bottom margins (right to the very bottom of
the virtual page). This seems to correspond to editing text that preceds the
graphics. I am using "captions" and trying to lock the graphics to the
paragraph. Anyone have this problem or have an idea as to what is going on?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you format the graphics as "In Line With Text" instead of wrapped, they
will be confined by the document margins.

I am assemblying a manual and trying to keep the bigger 'screenshots' in
their correct position. Sometimes they are where they should be, other times
they are hangin' over the top and bottom margins (right to the very bottom of
the virtual page). This seems to correspond to editing text that preceds the
graphics. I am using "captions" and trying to lock the graphics to the
paragraph. Anyone have this problem or have an idea as to what is going

on?

 

[Billy Boy]

Thanks Suzanne. I tried that but then the graphics start behaving really
wierdly like becoming disjointed from the captions and under/overlapping each
other and/or the text. Any more suggestions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the captions are also inline, and the graphics (or captions, whichever
come first) are formatted as "Keep with next," you should have no problem.

 

[Billy Boy]

Will give it a try. Seems like too much work for such a small thing. Why does
Microsoft not combine the Caption function with the graphic so as to cotrol
it as one object? ... consider it a suggestion.
Thanks!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you create styles for your graphics and captions (by default Word uses
the Caption style for the captions you create using Insert | Caption) and
include the "Keep with next" property in the appropriate style, this is not
such a big deal.