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Howdy All,
I have used LaTeX for may years now and I love the way that it creates beautiful documents for me. Alas for reasons beyond my control I have to submit a paper formatted in Word and I am about to strangle someone since I cannot get a simple figure to work.
The article is formatted two columns to a page and I have a figure which I want to float to the top of the page this is a wide figure so it will cover the top 3 inches of both columns. I also need to attach a caption to this figure which obviously will span both columns. WHY IS THIS HARD! Once I get the goofy figure in place and the text wrapping correctly I add a caption to it via the context menu and Blammo! the figure jumps to teh previous page and the caption appears in a totally random place on the next page!!! It's a GUI so click-drag Zip it goes somewhere else. It really seams like the caption and the figure to which it is supposed to be attached actively repel each other.
Now in Latex I would simply say "I reference this figure here, please find a nice place for it... close by... at the top of a page. Oh by the way here is its little caption." How do I do the same thing in Word there has to be a way right. I can't imagine what Word is doing, things just appear to jump around and the resulting layout isn't just not what I wanted it is down right stupid.
Can anyone save my sanity! Tell me what magic incantation I am missing to make my figures behave.
Thanks a million,
-Eric
I have used LaTeX for may years now and I love the way that it creates beautiful documents for me. Alas for reasons beyond my control I have to submit a paper formatted in Word and I am about to strangle someone since I cannot get a simple figure to work.
The article is formatted two columns to a page and I have a figure which I want to float to the top of the page this is a wide figure so it will cover the top 3 inches of both columns. I also need to attach a caption to this figure which obviously will span both columns. WHY IS THIS HARD! Once I get the goofy figure in place and the text wrapping correctly I add a caption to it via the context menu and Blammo! the figure jumps to teh previous page and the caption appears in a totally random place on the next page!!! It's a GUI so click-drag Zip it goes somewhere else. It really seams like the caption and the figure to which it is supposed to be attached actively repel each other.
Now in Latex I would simply say "I reference this figure here, please find a nice place for it... close by... at the top of a page. Oh by the way here is its little caption." How do I do the same thing in Word there has to be a way right. I can't imagine what Word is doing, things just appear to jump around and the resulting layout isn't just not what I wanted it is down right stupid.
Can anyone save my sanity! Tell me what magic incantation I am missing to make my figures behave.
Thanks a million,
-Eric