CRED Practical Document Writing and Management

Captions

• What are they? • Numbered label typically followed by additional descriptive text of tables or figures • What’s the need? • Clearly identifies information presented in table/figure • Allows table or figure to be cut and pasted into other documents • Allows titles of tables/figures to be included in TOC • Allows cross referencing to table/figure from within text of the document • How to set up? • Select from “References” tab