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Often you will find that your book comes with captions. All captions will have to be reinserted to ensure proper formatting.
To insert a caption:
Insert Caption
If you have Word for Office 365, Word 2016, Word 2013, Word 2010, or Word 2007 here are some alternative instructions on how to insert captions.
Once you have successfully inserted your caption you will have to modify the style.
To Modify Caption Style:
Modify Style …
After you have modified the style it should stay that way for the rest of your editing.
Clear Formatting
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video tutorial to come
Sometimes you will come across a book that has odd formatting. In these cases you still have to ensure the captions are reinserted appropriately. Below are two examples off odd formatting. If you come across any other examples please add them below.
Captions Linked to Another Section
Sometimes you may get a book that has formatted the captions as links to another section of the book. An example of this would be this title
Long Captions that look like eText Paragraphs
When the captions are longer than the standard they can sometimes look like paragraphs in your edited etext. Use the eBook as a point of reference to ensure you select the correct text to insert in the caption.
An example of this would be On Food and Cooking
After the basic formatting was done for the Etext the captions looked like this:
In the eBook version the caption appeared in Italic text.
In this case you have to select the entire paragraph and insert it as you would any other caption.
Q: Instead of using captions, my book has numbered linked text (like endnotes) to a Credits section at the end of the book. Should I cut and paste the credits and use them for captions? Should I keep the Credits section or remove it? UPDATE: Some pictures do have captions, some just the numbered credit link, others have both.
A: I think that's a great approach - instead of the caption linking to the credit text at the back of the book, just use that credit text as the caption itself (using Insert Caption). We can prefix the caption with Credit: [insert credit text]. Then we can remove the Credits section as you suggested.