How to insert a Caption in Word

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In Microsoft Word, you can add captions to your table, figures, equations, and other objects. Captions use ane,2,3 number format by default; you tin can select a unlike number format for each type of captioned element.

What is a Caption in Word?

A explanation is a feature in Microsoft Discussion that labels your picture or object. The default options for the explanation are Equation, Figure, and Table.

How to insert a Caption in Give-and-take?

Adding captions to objects in Microsoft Word is like shooting fish in a barrel and not challenging to do. In this tutorial, we volition explain how to use the Insert Caption feature in Microsoft Word. To insert a explanation in Word, follow the steps below.

How to insert a Caption in Give-and-take

To insert a Caption in Microsoft Word follow the steps below.

Launch Microsoft Word
Click the Reference tab
Click Insert Caption
In the dialog box name the explanation
Choose a label
Then select a position
Click OK

Launch Microsoft Give-and-take.

Click the object you want to add the explanation to, for instance, equation, table, figure, or any other object in your document.

Click the Reference tab and click Insert Caption in the Captions grouping.

A Caption dialog box will open.

Inside the dialog box, blazon the text you want to announced after the characterization in the Explanation section.

You can select the characterization that best describes the object; the default characterization provided in the listing is Equation, Figure, and Table.

You can too choose the position where you want to place the label. You tin select Below the selected item or Above the selected particular in the Position list.

If the list does not provide the characterization you want, click New Label and type the label name in the Label box.

Then click OK.

If yous want to change the numbering of the figure, click the Numbering button.

A Captioning Numbering dialog box volition open in the Format section, click the drop-downwardly arrow to select a numbering format, and so click OK.

Click OK afterwards selecting and positioning your label and enter text in the Caption section.

You will see the caption under the object.

How to delete a Explanation in Word

To delete a Caption in Discussion:

Highlight the text your want to delete
Press Delete on the keyboard.

We hope this tutorial helps you insert a caption in Microsoft Word; if you lot take questions about the tutorial, allow us know.

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