John, You are perhaps too familiar with it. I can see how a new user would have problems understanding. The exact procedure I use is:
1. Insert > Floats > Figure. 2. With the cursor at "Figure#" press Enter. The cursor is now inside the red outline of the float, on the line above "Figure#". 3. Layout > Paragraph and select Center in the Alignment box. Press OK. 4. Insert > Graphics. Les On Thursday 16 October 2003 12:12 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:10:32PM +0200, Tomasz Koziara wrote: > > HOW TO CENTER A TABLE OR A FIGURE (e.g. in float field) IN LYX ???? > > There's no need to shout. > > Centre the paragraph it is in (Layout->Paragraph) > > john