{"id":8460,"date":"2016-07-28T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2016-07-23T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:39:23","slug":"adding-a-simple-image-caption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8460","title":{"rendered":"Adding a Simple Image Caption"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post<\/a>, I made a video on how to stick an image into a document at a simple level. At the same basic level, you can quickly add a caption below the image. It’s not a clever trick, but it’s something that requires a few extra steps when you want to do it correctly.
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\nThe caption is really just another line of text — a paragraph — after the line that holds the image. At the this level, where pictures are formatted inline with text, those two lines make up the image: The graphic sits on a line by itself, like a big, single character. The caption is text on the next line.<\/p>\n

If you set the insertion pointer after the image and press Enter, the next line is formatted centered, which is ideal for a caption. Type the caption text and format it so that it’s bold and perhaps a bit smaller than the document text. If the document text uses a serif typeface, the caption should be sans serif. In fact, Word has a Caption style built-in that you can use.<\/p>\n

The final trick is to keep both the image and the caption paragraphs together; you don’t want a page break to sneak in between them. To do that you apply the Keep Lines Together paragraph format, which is demonstrated in the video:<\/p>\n

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