[longtalker]

I have my "Caption" style customized with Alignment=Centered, however whenever I insert a new caption for a picture (right click on picture|Insert Caption), its alignment is Left, which is the same alignment that the picture has by default; if I change the alignment of the picture beforehand, for example to Right, then its caption will also be inserted with Alignment=Right, disregarding the style. I therefore have to manually apply the Caption style for every single caption that I insert, in order for it to become centered. Interestingly enough, even though the caption does not have the Caption style when first inserted, it does have all of the text formatting included in that style; for instance, I have set the font under the Caption style to be gray and italicized, and inserted Captions are indeed gray and italicized, but the Alignment setting is always overwritten by the picture's alignment. My question is whether it is possible to either - make inserted captions automatically be of the style Caption, or - set a default alignment for inserted pictures; I know you can set a default *position* for them (such as In-line With Text, or Squared) but I'm not sure if there is also a style for pictures or something that can allow a default set of settings for every new picture inserted into the document Can anyone help? Anticipated thanks. PS: using Word 2007 on Windows XP.