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How can I keep a picture from moving as I add text?
I am writing a document of 30 or so pages and have about that many pictures.
Is their a way to fix the pictures (and a text box) in position as I add or edit text?Essentially I have the pictures and want to add descriptive material as I go. |
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How can I keep a picture from moving as I add text?
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:35:16 -0800, apoch
wrote: I am writing a document of 30 or so pages and have about that many pictures. Is their a way to fix the pictures (and a text box) in position as I add or edit text?Essentially I have the pictures and want to add descriptive material as I go. It's a frequently requested feature, but no, Word can't do that. Every floating object (pictures and text boxes) is "anchored" to a specific text paragraph. You can specify the object's horizontal and vertical positions (in the Format Picture or Format Text Box dialog) as being relative to the page instead of relative to the anchor. However, if the anchor text moves to another page, the object will also move to that page. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How can I keep a picture from moving as I add text?
And my advice on this is not to try to insert pictures at all until editing
is complete. Instead, insert a notation of where the picture will go: [Insert Figure 1 about here] [Photo of Grandmother goes here] and the like. Then go back at the end and slot them in, being aware that you'll have to make some compromises (in my current venture, I've had a *lot* of compromises and an equal number of frustrations, whereby I've come to more fully sympathize with other users' infuriation with Word's handling of wrapped graphics). To the extent that you can put them inline (in table cells if necessary), you'll retain more of your sanity. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:35:16 -0800, apoch wrote: I am writing a document of 30 or so pages and have about that many pictures. Is their a way to fix the pictures (and a text box) in position as I add or edit text?Essentially I have the pictures and want to add descriptive material as I go. It's a frequently requested feature, but no, Word can't do that. Every floating object (pictures and text boxes) is "anchored" to a specific text paragraph. You can specify the object's horizontal and vertical positions (in the Format Picture or Format Text Box dialog) as being relative to the page instead of relative to the anchor. However, if the anchor text moves to another page, the object will also move to that page. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How can I keep a picture from moving as I add text?
You might be better off to use MS Publisher or some other Desktop Publishing
(page layout) program for a project such as this. Even if you're not familiar with their use it would most likely be a more comfortable learning curve than trying to master the control of numerous graphic objects in a Word doc... And the result will be more stable & reliable:-) Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 12/31/07 9:35 PM, in article , "apoch" wrote: I am writing a document of 30 or so pages and have about that many pictures. Is their a way to fix the pictures (and a text box) in position as I add or edit text?Essentially I have the pictures and want to add descriptive material as I go. |
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