Any wrapped object is anchored to a text paragraph and will move with it.
Although you can specify its position on the page, it will appear on the
same page as the paragraph it is anchored to. Beyond that, the positioning
of wrapped graphics is a mystery to me, which is why I avoid them insofar as
possible. Unless I absolutely, positively have to wrap text around graphics,
I usually leave them and their captions inline (with whichever is above
formatted as "Keep with next") or put them in a borderless table cell.

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"Jim K" wrote in message
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Good morning Suzanne,

Yes I do understand that problem. I am not planning to do a table of
figures
for this book as the document has over 400 of them that would make the
table
at least 8 pages long and at the cost of printing today, it is not worth
it.
In other books I've used frames as you suggest and that works OK.

Any ideas on why the box wanders when it is filled?

Thanks.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Note that if you are going to want to generate a table of figures, Word
will
not see a caption in a text box. A frame is more suitable for this
purpose.

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"Jim K" wrote in message
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Hello Suzanne,

I do know that, but there is also a figure label under the picture,
and to
keep both of them together it seems appropriate to enclose both of
them in
the text box.

I have in the past used a table two elements tall and one wide for
this
and
flowed the text around the table, but that has other problems...

I really would like to solve this problem.

Thanks!

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Well, to begin with, you do not need a text box to insert a wrapped
picture.

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"Jim K" wrote in message
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I added a text box to a full page of text in a very long document
..
The
box
is about 4" square and is positioned at the top right of the print
portion
of
the page (not in the margins). Before filling the box I set the
attribute
to
have the text wrap around the box which occurred quite nicely.

I then set the focus to the interior of the box and attempted to
add a
..jpg
image in the box using InsertPictureFrom File...[ref to .jpg
file].

The picture goes in just fine but the text box jumps to the prior
page. I
cannot move the box back to the original location as it always
jumps
to
the
prior page.

I have tried turning off the move with text attribute. I have
tried
assigning an absolute location, and in fact I've twiddled every
attribute
on
the format text box advanced options.

Why does this occur and how can I prevent this action?

Thanks for your help.