Working With Images in Microsoft Word

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.