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# WD: Automatic Captioning Doesn't Label Inserted Files

Article ID: 110333

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95a
- Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q110333

## SYMPTOMS

When you configure Microsoft Word to automatically insert captions for Word documents, and you then insert documents by clicking File on the Insert menu, captions are not automatically added.

## CAUSE

By design, Word adds captions to embedded Word document objects only, which you insert by clicking Object on the Insert menu. The AutoCaption feature does not apply to Word documents you insert directly as files.

## RESOLUTION

To correctly insert a document and have the caption automatically added, follow these steps:

1. On the Insert menu, click Object.
2. Do one of the following:
   In Word 6.0: Click to select either Microsoft Word 6.0 Document, or click From File to insert an existing Word document as a document object. -or-
3. In Word 95 and later: On the Create New tab, click to select Microsoft Word Document, or on the Create from File tab, click Browse to select an existing Word document to insert as a Word document object.

Keywords: kbprb kbfield KB110333