If there is not enough space for the text AND figure to move, you will just have a chunk of white space here and the text will not move. As an example, say you delete a paragraph above this. If this text moves, your figure will move.Ĭheck the video for examples of this text moving. This is a key point with figures that people miss and what can mess with your formatting. What this anchor text does, your figure does! When the figure is highlighted, you’ll see this blue anchor appear somewhere in the text on that same page – this is the location in the text where your figure is “anchored” or fixed to the text. Now we can start to play with the anchor, or what holds our figure in place in the text. If we click on “square”, the text will wrap squarely around our image, with is the standard setting we want. So now we want to click on the figure and change the text wrap using the wrap symbol that will pop up in the upper right-hand corner of the figure. Now, though, the figure in in line with the text, meaning that the text isn’t wrapped around the figure, and the figure is splitting the paragraph in two: For maximum chaos, I’ll insert this figure in the middle of a sentence in this paragraph: This cursor will appear to show you where the figure will be dropped in the text. To insert the figure anywhere in the text, just grab the figure with your mouse and drag it to where you want to locate it. In the example I am going to show, I initially have a figure and caption on its own page:
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