> > I'll try to explain. Sorry if my english is not up to the=20
> task. I call=20
> > "float" an entity that can be placed anywhere in the=20
> document, and is=20
> > not in the normal text flow. This can be done wonderfully with text=20
> > boxes in Word. One typical float I use would have a graphic in it,=20
> > with a title for it in the bottom, saying something like=20
> "Illustration 1:
> > Representation of a vectorial space".=20
>=20
> I don't use text boxes for that. Illustrations (and other=20
> inserted graphical elements) have pretty much all the=20
> placement options of text boxes. So when I add an=20
> illustration, I just set the positioning and text flow=20
> properties how I want them and add a caption (typically "Figure 3:
> Position Switch Wiring" or something like that). Then I can=20
> use this in references.

Sorry. I think I don't undestand you. If I place an illustration with a
caption, and then I tell the illustration to be, say, floating at the top=
 of
the page, then the illustration goes to the top, but the caption remains =
in
the same place, in the middle of the text, where it was before. This is t=
he
reason I have to place both the illustration and its caption in a "floati=
ng
container". In my Word 2003 I have 3 containers: text boxes, frames, and
"lienzos de dibujo" (literally: "picture canvas", or something like that)=
. I
am missing something here?

> Thanks! Just out of curiosity: here everything is in English.=20
> Yet above you talked about the "marco". Do you have a mix of=20
> English and Spanish names for things inside Word?

I suppose Microsoft translated only the elemental user interface. The ker=
nel
remains untranslated. My VBA code talks english, and my interface (both W=
ord
and VBA) spanish. Sometimes this gives me some "interesting" problems.

If you want to take a look at both my Word and VBA, you can see it in the
photo I placed in:

ftp://anonymous@193.144.52.77/untitled3.jpg

In it you can see a full mixture of both languages. In the Word window yo=
u
can see the situation I just mentioned above: the caption and the image a=
re
broken. And yes, I am the one playing behind the cell phone  :o)

Regards,

=C1lvaro Deibe D=EDaz.



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