Thanks. That worked. I've played a bit with this now, so let me check the
protocols for this with you.
If you create a couple (or more) items (say a text box and a picture) within one drawing canvas, you can select and, if you wish, group all or some of the objects. Once they have been created in a drawing canvas, you can drag them from the drawing canvas and remove the drawing canvas and the objects are still selectable and group or ungroupable.
If you create an item in one drawing canvas and a second item in another drawing canvas, you cannot select both items while they are still in their original, separate drawing canvases. If, however, you drag them from the drawing canvases, they can both be selected at one time.
You cannot delete the drawing canvas before you drag out the objects; doing so deletes everything within the drawing canvas.
So it seems to me that the drawing canvas confers selectibility (I don't
think there is such a word...but I think it conveys what I mean) but also
bounds the selectibility. When the canvas is removed the selectibility
remains and the boundary is gone.
Thanks again for your help.
Dorothy
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:20:00 -0700, Dorothy M F
wrote:
In Word 2003, one can select a picture and a text box (or multiple pictures
and multiple text boxes) and group them (an extremely useful feature for
someone preparing materials in organic chemistry). I have been unable to do
this in Word 2007. I've tried boxing things with the select tool (text boxes
are selected but not the pictures) with and without the shift key or the
control key or the shift/control keys. Same with mouse clicking. It is a
trivial task in 2003; is this simply unavailable in 2007?
First insert a drawing canvas (at the bottom of the Insert Shapes
dropdown). Anything you put on the canvas can be grouped. After the
items are grouped, you can drag them off the canvas and delete the
canvas if you don't want it.
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