A caption will clarify your picture to readers. It can be used to attribute the picture to a specific source. Or it can help you reference the picture in other parts of the document.
To add a caption to your picture, follow these steps:
1. Right-click the picture and select Caption
2. In the Caption dialog box, enter your caption in the box labeled Caption
3. Select a label for your caption of select Exclude label from caption
4. If you don’t like the label choices, create a new by one click New Label
5. Use the Position drop-down box to select the position of the caption
Your caption will appear beside the picture.
Working With Images in Microsoft Word
From James Marshall, former About.com Guide
Previous
- Inserting a Picture From a File
- Selecting the Picture
- Changing the Picture Size
- Changing Picture Layout Options
- Adding a Caption to Your Picture
Explore Word Processing
- About.com
- Computing
- Word Processing
- Microsoft Word
- Working With Images
- Adding a Caption to a Picture in a Word Document