[JR Hester]

Stefan,

Thanks for your reply. I was following an earlier instruction to copy to
clipboard and paste from there, which did not work for me, it just contimued
to paste outside the canvas. Using copy then p-aste from eth right click
menus did indeed get the picture on teh drawing canvas and I was abkle to add
shapes and group the picture plus shapes grouped. Thank you.

I did try going that one step further and drag the picture/shapes group off
the canvas for placement in my document. Once I moved the grouped image from
the canvas the alignment options were disabled. Seems i can get one or teh
other but not both together in Word 2007.

Again thanks for your pointer, it got me one step closer to my final
destination



"Stefan Blom" wrote:

If you set the Text Wrapping of the picture to "In line with text," you can
cut and paste it into a drawing canvas.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"JR Hester" wrote in message
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WordT2007 on WinXP.

I constantly include screen captures in my documentation and annotate with
circles, boxes, arrows and so forth to clarify textual instructions. I too
am
dismayed with teh failure of teh 2007 version to allow grouping of shapes
with pictures.

I have read the answers from jay Freedman and Beth Melon from back in 2007
and 2008. I was disappointed to find that I cannot paste a picture onto a
drawing canvas. Paste keeps inserting teh picture above the canvas.

Has anyone found a different work around within Word? Or is there some
setting I need to change to allow pasting pictures from the clipboard onto
the drawing canvas?
Thank you.