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Unfortunately, this makes the caption and the text itself italic, e.g. Table 1 Income breakdown My academic guidelines, however, indicate that captions should not be in italics, with exception of the enumeration of the figure or table. Word 2011 for Mac updates these field values for the whole document before printing. You don't actually have to print the file but just open and close the print dialog via File --> Print.

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Click to select the graphic.

Choose your desired graphic.

From the References tab’s Captions group, click the Insert Caption button.

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The Captions dialog box appears.

In the Caption text box, type the figure caption text.

Windows supplies the figure number in the form of the text, Figure 1. You cannot remove that reference, but you can place a check mark in the Exclude Label From Caption box to shrink it down to just a number.

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Choose a position for the caption from the Position drop-down list.

The caption position is relative to the figure.

Click the OK button.

The caption is applied to the figure.

The caption itself is a special type of text box, which resembles a graphical image but contains text. It’s not grouped with the image, so if you move or resize the image, you have to move or resize the caption box as well. To avoid that, you can group the two items.

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An advantage to applying captions this way is that you can create a list of captions or figures for your document, summarizing them all along with their page references. To do so, use the Insert Table of Figures button, found in the References tab’s Captions group.