Paragraph indention does depend on the book.

You can format the pictures with an absolute location. That would involve
editing the format of every picture in your document and it sounds like you
have lots of them. This can get time consuming.

If you always have the pictures in their own paragraph, which I'm assuming
you do, then Anne's suggestion of a separate style for these paragraphs is
the best option. Your text paragraphs will continue to use the style you have
them in (probably the normal style) and they will continue to first indent as
your book layout requires.

In the styles pane or dialog box (depending on your version of Word), add a
new style. Give it a descriptive name like "Graphic" or "Image."

Apply this style to the paragraph with the first image in your document.
Adjust the paragraph formating until you get the image where you need. I
recommend No special indent and Center justification.

When the picture is where you like it, there is an option with your styles
(it is different between having the Styles Pane and not.) that allows you to
update the style definition with the formatting of the current paragraph.

Once that is done, go to all of the paragraphs with the pictures and apply
the new style to them.

Later if you change your mind about the formatting for this paragraph (say
you want to add 12 pt leading after the paragraph), you make the change to
the style and all of the paragraphs with this style are automatically updated.
--
Jack Rumple


"JCM" wrote:

Thank you. The pictures are Inline and I have to indent the first line
because that is how one does it in a book. Are you suggesting there is no
other way.

"Anne Troy" wrote:

Judging from the questions you're asking, you may want to format your
pictures as Inline with text.
It also sounds, in this question, like you've got indents on your
paragraphs. I would create a style for my graphics and NOT indent the
paragraph.
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"JCM" wrote in message
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I am working with justified text. How do I centre a picture when the first
line of the paragraphs are indented. They will only centre to the first
line.
I have tried to move the anchors but they will only adhere to the indented
lines.