Object (picture) properties thru styles?

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SM

Hi,

I was wondering if there's a way to create a style for an object, eg. for
setting the top and bottom style plus a border plus associating subtitle
style companion, a.s.o., for a set of pics. The styles seem to be only
available for paragraphs, words, tables. I could probably manage with a
macro, but the styles'd be perfect for the purpose.
BTW, is there any way of making the text wrap around pics other than setting
the picture's style to something nonstandard? Like making this the other way
round, with the paragraphs having a property to wrap objects. This would be
particulary useful with simple wraps, like: 1st paragraph part, cut to next
page, picture from top, 2nd paragraph part follows after pic.

thanks
 
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Shauna Kelly

Hi SM

No, there are no styles for pictures. However there are ways to use the
existing tools to help.

First, if you have Word 2002 or 2003, you can specify the default for
inserting pictures (eg in-line, square etc) at Tools > Options > Edit.
Choose the setting you use most often, so that most times you paste a
picture it will have the setting you need.

If your pictures are in-line, then you can create a style called, say,
Pictures. Modify the style to have the paragraph alignment, indents and
space before and after that you need. Make sure that line spacing in this
style is set to Single. Set the Pictures style to be followed by the style
you use for your captions (ideally, the built-in Caption style). Set the
Pictures style to "Keep with next" so that the picture will always stay on
the same page as the next paragraph, which holds the caption. If you need a
border around the whole picture + caption block, then give both the Pictures
and the Caption style the same border. Word will collapse the borders so
that you get one big border around the block, rather than individual borders
around the picture and the caption.

If you do that, you can paste your picture, apply the style, press Enter to
type the caption, and the whole chunk will be formatted as you need it.

If your caption is above the picture, modify the Caption style to "keep with
next" and make its following style the Pictures style.

However, if your pictures are floating, with a caption, then the best way is
with a frame. There is some information on the following page on frames:
How to keep a figure on the same page as its caption
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/figures/keepwithcaption.html

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
 
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SM

If your pictures are in-line, then you can create a style called, say,
Pictures. Modify the style to have the paragraph alignment, indents and
Click to expand...

That's the technique I use and it works well. The only problem is with the
paragraph breaks. Most of the time the whole paragraphs are sent to the next
page. This results in rather unaesthetic white spaces at the end of the
pages.
Sometimes though paragraphs do break (and wrap) around pictures (when the
picture is right at the top of the page), but I don't know how to control
this behaviour. Any clues?

I could use frames and floating images, but this brings it's own problems
(references, c&p, and the like).

thanks for your help
 
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