[Peter T. Daniels]

You mean Publisher. For the second paragraph, you've already mentioned
that you know FrameMaker.

On Aug 23, 4:36*pm, Paul wrote:
Agreed, page layout lies more in the realm of powerpoint, perhaps to
layout promotional flyers or something.

I'm considering floating figures as a standard capability for
documentation software, and controllable persistent visibility of
anchors as being a highly desirable feature for that capability when
editting the document.

On Aug 16, 2:41*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:



I agree with everything you say. The bottom line is that Word is not really
a page layout application.

"Paul" wrote in message

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I admit, it's way easier to edit the document with figures inline, but
for publication-ready documents, it takes less white space to put
figures at the top or bottom of columns. *For example, locating a
figure at the top of a column means you only have to allot a margin of
white space between the bottom of the figure and the text underneath.
Multi-column figures also look better at the top or bottom of a page.
I realize that this can be manually rigged up when no more revisions
are needed to an article, but it is still laborious. *Also, at least
in my experience, I might think that a draft requires no more
revisions, but more often than not, I'm wrong.

I guess it's a wish-list item, for anchors to be persistently
available.

On Aug 16, 11:05 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you select a paragraph to which a floating object is anchored, then
it's
going to be cut or deleted or dragged along with it. I don't know any way
around that. One more argument for having images inline whenever possible.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Paul" wrote in message

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Thanks, Suzanne. Are you aware of standard practices/tricks by Word
wizards to avoid inadvertently selecting floating figures/objects when
highlighting entire paragraphs for cutting, deletion, or dragging?

On Aug 13, 6:58 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You are correct in assuming that object anchors are displayed only when
the
floating object is selected. You can move the anchor to any paragraph
you
like, however (on the same page).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Paul" wrote in message

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On Aug 13, 3:56 pm, Paul wrote:

I followedhttp://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/FloatFigWord.pdftocreate
floating figures. In Word 2003, the advanced layout options I used to
put the drawing canvas at the top of a column we

* Text Wrapping: Top and bottom
* Picture Position:
- Horizontal: "Alignment" "Left" relative to "Column"
- Vertical: "Alignment" "Top" relative to "Margin"

I can switch between the above positioning and "In line with text" to
see where the figure is when it isn't floating. I also noted that
even when the figure was floating, deleting the text where it resides
when it is inline would also cause the floating figure to be deleted.
This means there is an "anchor" point at the place where it resides
when it is inline.

Is there a way to make this anchor visible so that I don't go deleting
it, and so that I know when the anchor is pushed to another new column
when composing/editing? Tools-Options-View allows me to activate
visibility of object anchors, but that's only when the object (the
drawing canvas in this case) is selected.

Actually, even a confirmation of the certain inability of Word to
persistently show anchors would be welcome. It's getting awkward
composing my document while holding off on the proper placement of the
figures to which I allude. Thanks. P.S. I'm using Word 2003 on
Windows XP.