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Hi. Tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to do something so simple creating a picture caption and locking it to the image... in Ms Word you just right click and add a a caption, done! Here is seems to require a lot more work. And why can I not move the text frame with the caption once its created.. sometimes? 

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If you arrange the caption Frame Text layer under (visually) the image and then Group the caption Frame Text layer with the image layer you can treat the group as one entity’.

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Note that you can only group objects when they're unpinned. It appears that the caption is pinned into the text frame (or accidentally created on the master page layer) as evidenced by the X handles. You'll have to unpin it, as well as unpin the image above if that's pinned, before grouping them.

X handles can also appear for a locked layer but I assume you didn't accidentally lock the caption layer.

Another way to do this is to pin the image inline (not pin it as floating), press Return to start a new paragraph, and then type the caption as a regular paragraph in the same text frame. You can use the Flow Options settings to ensure the image and caption paragraphs stick together. I use this approach if the caption will go below the image. If I need to position the caption to the right of the image then it's better to group them together.

Cheers

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I'd love to say 'thanks worked great' but sadly it doesn't at least the way you have described it. 'Press Return' ..hmm on what, where, which mode, which tool? Just pressing Return on the image shows a panel for moving or duplicating the image. And No the X handles appear when they feel like it, even if I create the text frame outside the page text frame, nothing to do with the master page.

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4 minutes ago, TBA said:

I'd love to say 'thanks worked great' but sadly it doesn't at least the way you have described it. 'Press Return' ..hmm on what, where, which mode, which tool? Just pressing Return on the image shows a panel for moving or duplicating the image. And No the X handles appear when they feel like it, even if I create the text frame outside the page text frame, nothing to do with the master page.

To pin an image line, select the image and click Inline in the Pinning panel. (There are other ways to do it such as just pasting the image but this is the most obvious way.) Double-click on the text frame to switch back to Frame Text tool and then position the text cursor to the right of the image. Press the Return key to start a new paragraph.

Sorry about the X handles, I thought they appeared when an image was pinned inline. If they're appearing when they "feel like it", It's most likely because you created the image on the master page layer. Publisher makes this rather easy to do by accident. You can confirm if this is the case by looking at the Layers panel and seeing where the layer is - is it inside the master page layer?

If not, please share a screenshot so we can figure this out. Include the Layers panel and select the image.

Good luck

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