You can also add captions to your pictures. Captions are pre-formatted text boxes that are attached to a picture to give additional information about it.

 

To insert a caption, first right-click on the picture and click Caption.

 

 

Once you do that, the caption dialog will appear. You can enter the name of your picture using the Caption text box. You can also choose a label for your picture (pre-defined labels are Figure, Equation, and Table); this is helpful if you want all your pictures to be numbered consistently. (You can add more numbering by clicking the Numbering button in the bottom right hand corner.)

 

You can even remove labels from your caption using the Exclude label from caption box. (Pictures will still be numbered.) You can also create your own labels by clicking the New Label button; the Delete Label option is only available if you are using a custom label. 

 

You can also choose the position for your caption using the Position drop-down; the caption can be above or below your picture. If you want Word to automatically caption certain types of pictures, click the AutoCaption button to select those types.

 

Once you’re done configuring the options, click OK to apply the caption. Here’s a sample caption:

 

 

You can edit the caption right in the document simply by clicking its text. You can even format it like normal text, like this:

 

 

That’s all there is to using captions!