Difficulties placing images on pages and captions in Publisher 2

[chriscaldwell]

Hello,

I'm stumped. I hope someone can help me. 

I have been working on a Publisher 2 document. I want to place pictures on some pages, and then add some captions. 

When I put the photos on the page, I notice It puts this little slider under the pic, and when I try to adjust, I sometimes end up with a border around the pic? I like the adjustment ability, but don't want a border around the pics.

Also, I cannot even put captions nice and close under the picture. I experimented by creating a caption in a separate text box, then I choose one of the text wrap options, for example "tight." I then move the caption under the picture, but cannot get close enough without the caption disappearing?!  I just want to be able to control how close I put captions.

Any ideas of how to fix this? I've attached the project. Specially it's on Page 3 of this document where the issue presents. 

Thank you so much for any help.

Chris

 

Data Storage in Space.afpub

[Dan C]

Hi Chriscaldwell,

Your image has space around it. You will need to either crop the original image, or you can use the crop tool in Publisher to trim the image to the size you wish.

Lee

 

 

[chriscaldwell]

Thank you, Lee. I appreciate your help. I have cropped my images and reduced the space around the images, but was wondering now if there was a way to overlap a text layer on top of an image in Publisher 2?

[h_d]

Like this?

Turn off text wrap.

[chriscaldwell]

That's it, but it doesn't work for me.

In the attached screenshots, I have turned off text wrap, then dropped the caption on top of the picture just to try as an example. The text vanishes, but the text frame is visible. Thank you for your help.

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, chriscaldwell said:

In the attached screenshots, I have turned off text wrap, then dropped the caption on top of the picture just to try as an example. The text vanishes, but the text frame is visible.

You need to turn off Text Wrap for the picture, not the Text Frame. Or you need to use the Text Frame panel to set "Ignore Text Wrap" for the Text Frame.

[chriscaldwell]

Thanks Walt. In this attachment, text wrap for the picture is indeed off. You can see that the text frame is dropped on top of the image, but the text stays in the same spot under the picture. Not understanding why. Thank you.

 

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, chriscaldwell said:

In this attachment, text wrap for the picture is indeed off. You can see that the text frame is dropped on top of the image, but the text stays in the same spot under the picture. Not understanding why.

The Text Wrap settings you are displaying are for the Text Frame, because that is the object that is selected. To see the Text Wrap settings for the picture, you would need to have the picture Selected, and then click the Text Wrap settings icon.

It is correct that the Text Frame would not move. Only the text it contains would be affected by the picture's Text Wrap settings.

[chriscaldwell]

There are two screenshots, one shows the image selected and the settings for text frame are set to none. The text is not selected.

 

[chriscaldwell]

Here's a screen recording of what I'm doing. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

thank you.

 

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, chriscaldwell said:

There are two screenshots, one shows the image selected and the settings for text frame are set to none. The text is not selected.

Sorry; misinterpreted that one.

 

[chriscaldwell]

Thanks for taking a look. Hoping that maybe the screen recording might help.

[carl123]

You (may) need to do two things

1. Select the text frame that contains the caption then in the Text Frame Studio (not the Text Wrap Dialog) tick the check box that says "Ignore Text Wraps" then move the text frame on top of the image.

2. If you can't see the text after you move it on top of the image do Layer > Arrange > Move to Front

[chriscaldwell]

Hi Carl,

That did the trick. Thanks so much. What a relief to have that behind me.

Thank you,

Chris