I have updated the Normal style within our company's Normal.dot template.
All I did was change the font settings and line spacing. Now, users have
begun to use this new template for creating new blank documents. When
inserting images after a few lines of text (Insert Picture From File),
the layout does not respond as it used to when using the old Normal.dot:

Old Normal.dot: The image was completely visible below the text
New Normal.dot: Only the bottom edge of the image is visible because the
rest of the image is hidden behind the text.

I went into Format Picture in documents based on both templates, and the
settings appear to be identical. (e.g. Both have the Layout set to "In line
with text".)
If I click on the image to select it (in either document), I see that the
style is set to "Normal".
When I compare Normal styles in each template (File Print Print what =
"styles"), I see nothing about image layout settings.

Any ideas how to force the inserted images to appear below or in line with
text?

It sounds as if you have defined exact line spacing for the Normal style.
The whole idea of using styles is to have a different style for each type of
formatting. So you need a different style, with Single line spacing, for
your graphics. I would also discourage the idea of changing the line spacing
of Normal style, as that can affect almost every other style (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...esCascade.html); I would
suggest instead that you modify Body Text and use that as your basic text
style.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Sara Marcoa" wrote in message
...
I have updated the Normal style within our company's Normal.dot template.
All I did was change the font settings and line spacing. Now, users have
begun to use this new template for creating new blank documents. When
inserting images after a few lines of text (Insert Picture From File),
the layout does not respond as it used to when using the old Normal.dot:

Old Normal.dot: The image was completely visible below the text
New Normal.dot: Only the bottom edge of the image is visible because the
rest of the image is hidden behind the text.

I went into Format Picture in documents based on both templates, and the
settings appear to be identical. (e.g. Both have the Layout set to "In
line
with text".)
If I click on the image to select it (in either document), I see that the
style is set to "Normal".
When I compare Normal styles in each template (File Print Print what =
"styles"), I see nothing about image layout settings.

Any ideas how to force the inserted images to appear below or in line with
text?

Yes, I did have the line spacing set to Exactly 5 mm. Changing that to
"single" or "1 1/2" lines fixed the problem with the image layout. The line
spacing setting of "At least 5 mm" turned out to be the best working
solution in the end since we could stick to the 5 mm.

Thanks for the tip about not changing the Normal style. Is there a way to
force new blank documents to use Body Text instead of Normal? (It is so hard
to get users to remember to select a style in the list...)



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
It sounds as if you have defined exact line spacing for the Normal style.
The whole idea of using styles is to have a different style for each type
of
formatting. So you need a different style, with Single line spacing, for
your graphics. I would also discourage the idea of changing the line
spacing
of Normal style, as that can affect almost every other style (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...esCascade.html); I would
suggest instead that you modify Body Text and use that as your basic text
style.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Sara Marcoa" wrote in message
...
I have updated the Normal style within our company's Normal.dot template.
All I did was change the font settings and line spacing. Now, users have
begun to use this new template for creating new blank documents. When
inserting images after a few lines of text (Insert Picture From
File),
the layout does not respond as it used to when using the old Normal.dot:

Old Normal.dot: The image was completely visible below the text
New Normal.dot: Only the bottom edge of the image is visible because the
rest of the image is hidden behind the text.

I went into Format Picture in documents based on both templates, and
the
settings appear to be identical. (e.g. Both have the Layout set to "In
line
with text".)
If I click on the image to select it (in either document), I see that the
style is set to "Normal".
When I compare Normal styles in each template (File Print Print what
=
"styles"), I see nothing about image layout settings.

Any ideas how to force the inserted images to appear below or in line
with
text?

You can change the default empty paragraph in Normal style to Body Text, but
you'd be better off creating specific document templates and avoiding the
use of Normal.dot altogether. This is an issue of user training, but if you
have the templates set up correctly (with custom style toolbars if
required), then they will easily learn to use the template that makes it
easy for them to achieve the desired results.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Sara Marcoa" wrote in message
...
Yes, I did have the line spacing set to Exactly 5 mm. Changing that to
"single" or "1 1/2" lines fixed the problem with the image layout. The
line
spacing setting of "At least 5 mm" turned out to be the best working
solution in the end since we could stick to the 5 mm.

Thanks for the tip about not changing the Normal style. Is there a way to
force new blank documents to use Body Text instead of Normal? (It is so
hard
to get users to remember to select a style in the list...)



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
It sounds as if you have defined exact line spacing for the Normal
style.
The whole idea of using styles is to have a different style for each
type
of
formatting. So you need a different style, with Single line spacing, for
your graphics. I would also discourage the idea of changing the line
spacing
of Normal style, as that can affect almost every other style (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...esCascade.html); I would
suggest instead that you modify Body Text and use that as your basic
text
style.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Sara Marcoa" wrote in message
...
I have updated the Normal style within our company's Normal.dot
template.
All I did was change the font settings and line spacing. Now, users
have
begun to use this new template for creating new blank documents. When
inserting images after a few lines of text (Insert Picture From
File),
the layout does not respond as it used to when using the old
Normal.dot:

Old Normal.dot: The image was completely visible below the text
New Normal.dot: Only the bottom edge of the image is visible because
the
rest of the image is hidden behind the text.

I went into Format Picture in documents based on both templates, and
the
settings appear to be identical. (e.g. Both have the Layout set to "In
line
with text".)
If I click on the image to select it (in either document), I see that
the
style is set to "Normal".
When I compare Normal styles in each template (File Print Print
what
=
"styles"), I see nothing about image layout settings.

Any ideas how to force the inserted images to appear below or in line
with
text?