Greetings All -
My question is in regard to inserting Figure captions in MS Word 2013.
In my office, documents go through several sets of hands and eyes prior to submission.
This can sometimes result in odd things happening to the documents, including figure captions that start to "float".
My immediate supervisors have reached the conclusion that Figure captions are more stable when inserted via the references tool bar,
rather than right clicking on the figure and using insert caption from there.
I am now going through a process of clearing the formatting on hundreds of Figure captions, deleting them, and then re-inserting them using the "Reference" tool bar icon, rather than the right click and insert caption method which I had initially used.
IF this makes the documents more stable, I am willing to do it.
That said, I do question whether this instruction, which will take hours if not days of work, is actually based on real differences between the two methods of inserting captions.
If it is not, can someone suggest another way to prevent the "floating captions" issues that sometimes occur when I get my documents back?
I have been roundly criticized for documents that look perfect on my screen, but terrible on those of reviewers.
There was a history of that problem being due to differences in MS Word versions, I was unfortunate in that my MS Word was updated before that of others in my office. Then when theirs was updated, I had compatibility mode checked, and they did not., which also caused problems.
At this point, I believe all of us are using the same version of MS Word, with the same compatibility mode settings, but the problem of captions that start to "float" after passing through multiple hands remains.
Any advice?
Thanks.
