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Tip

In the Category box, you can type any name you want, for

example, Figure. OOo will create a numbering sequence using

that name.

Illustration 1. An example

Figure 268. An example of a graphic and its caption contained in a

frame. The outer box shows the edge of the frame; this border is

normally set to be invisible.

Overriding the default positioning of captions

The default positioning for picture captions is

Below

, and that position

cannot be changed using the Caption dialog. However, you can

override the positioning manually, as follows:

1) Follow the instructions in “Using the Caption dialog box” on page

291 to create the caption.

2) Right-click on the picture (not the frame surrounding picture and

caption) and make sure that Anchor > To paragraph is selected.

3) Left-click on the picture and drag it below the caption.

Tip

You may wish to adjust the spacing above and below the

caption text, to fine-tune the appearance of the picture and its

caption.

Adding captions manually

If you need to save as .DOC files or export in other formats, you may

find that captions applied as described above (either automatically or

using the Caption dialog box) are lost during the export. To avoid

export problems, or as another way to put captions above pictures or

below them (the usual case), you can add a caption manually, in either

of two ways:

• Place the graphic and its caption in separate paragraphs.

• Use a table.

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