moving captions to bottom of figure/table

Question

I have a document where all the descriptions currently appear above the figure/table. That is simply how I wrote everything. However, for publishing purposes the descriptions of figures and tables need to be below the figure/table. Is there a way to automatically get them to appear that way or do I have to do this by hand? Here is a sample of how one of my figures looks:

\begin{figure}
\protect\caption{Title of Figure\label{fig:F1}}


This is a description of figure 1. It talks about what is in the figure and where the data comes from. It's a really good description.

\vspace{1cm}


\centering{}\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{figures/fig_1}
\end{figure}

Answer 1

There really seem to be only two options:

1. Use the package floatrow as follows:

   \documentclass{article}
   \usepackage{graphicx}
   \usepackage{floatrow}
   
   \begin{document}
   
   \begin{figure}
   \protect\caption[position=bottom]{Title of Figure\label{fig:F1}}
   
   This is a description of figure 1. It talks about what is in the   
   figure and where the data comes from. It's a really good description.
   
   \vspace{1cm}
   
   
   \centering{}\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{example-image}
   \end{figure}
   
   \end{document}
   

Which produces

Which means, unfortunately, you'd have to move whatever further image descriptions you have into the caption (in this case, ending up with the line of code

\protect\caption[position=bottom]{Title of Figure\label{fig:F1} 
This is a description of figure 1. It talks about what is in the figure 
and where the data comes from. It's a really good description.}

Giving

Which, depending on how many graphics you have that have extra description not in the caption, could be a real pain.

2. You could bite the bullet and go through all graphics and move the location of the text:

   \documentclass{article}
   \usepackage{graphicx}
   
   \begin{document}
   
   \begin{figure}
   
   \vspace{1cm}
   
   
   \centering{}\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{example-image}
   
   
   \protect\caption[position=bottom]{Title of Figure\label{fig:F1}}
   This is a description of figure 1. It talks about what is in the 
   figure and where the data comes from. It's a really good description.
   \end{figure}
   
   \end{document}
   

Which gives

This would be even more of a pain than the first option, unfortunately.

So, it seems that you have to bite the bullet one way or the other. However I will keep looking for another solution, though at this point I am semi-doubtful there is one that will help you.