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DanJ77077
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January 4, 2010
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figures with captions

  • January 4, 2010
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I'm trying to create a paper where I have figures and captions under the figures and would like the body text to nicely fill in all of the space around the figures.  My text body is double columned and the figures and captions span both columns.  I simply insert the figures and captions in the body text, the figure is at one point and the caption immediately follows.  The problem is that I have a lot of figures, and I end up getting a lot of empty sections, because the program decides a new page is necessary to fit the figure before the previous page fills up with text.  I tried changing the anchor position of the anchored frame to "top of column", which helps with the space issue, but then the caption no longer connects to it.  Any ideas how to get this to work?  Seems like a common thing to want to do.  Thanks in advance!

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    Correct answer Arnis Gubins

    You could place a text frame in the anchored frame containing your graphic and use that to hold your figure caption. Then, try setting the anchored frame to "Float" (or to Top or Bottom of column) to optimize your space.

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    Mike Wickham
    Inspiring
    January 5, 2010

    The easy way to keep a figure and caption together is to create a one-cell

    table, with titles turned on. Put the figure in the table cell, and assign

    the caption paragraph format to the title. They'll always stay together.

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    January 5, 2010

    If placement control is an issue, as the OP indicated, then anchored frames have more flexibility, though I agree that a table construct works well too.

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    Anonymous
    January 5, 2010

    I've always managed so far with two related styles (one for the anchor of the anchored frame, one for the caption) and keep with previous.

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis GubinsCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    January 4, 2010

    You could place a text frame in the anchored frame containing your graphic and use that to hold your figure caption. Then, try setting the anchored frame to "Float" (or to Top or Bottom of column) to optimize your space.

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