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Vertical alignment and pictures
How can I position pictures when I am using vertical centering for my text?
When I insert clip arts and move them where I want them, they jump around and even disappear. If I take off the vertical alignment they stay where I put them. I want the text vertically centered on the page, but do not want this to make my clip arts jump around. How can I do this? |
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Vertical alignment and pictures
It seems as if Word tries to center both the picture and the text on
the page. Try the following: Double-click the picture, and then click the Layout tab. Under "Wrapping", click "In line with text". This places the picture in the text, as a (large) character. Select it and then click the Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar. Now you should be able to drag the frame (along with the picture) to the desired location. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "SarahB" wrote in message ... How can I position pictures when I am using vertical centering for my text? When I insert clip arts and move them where I want them, they jump around and even disappear. If I take off the vertical alignment they stay where I put them. I want the text vertically centered on the page, but do not want this to make my clip arts jump around. How can I do this? |
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Vertical alignment and pictures
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:50:03 -0800, SarahB wrote:
How can I position pictures when I am using vertical centering for my text? When I insert clip arts and move them where I want them, they jump around and even disappear. If I take off the vertical alignment they stay where I put them. I want the text vertically centered on the page, but do not want this to make my clip arts jump around. How can I do this? There is an interesting problem (in Word 2000 and Word 2002 SP2 at least) with Center Vertical Alignment interacting with floating objects such as pictures. If you insert a floating graphic, you may find that it pushes the insertion point upward! If the graphic vertical alignment is set relative to page and Page Setup is set for center alignment, the following rules seem to apply: (Similar strange behavior happens for bottom alignment.) If you type a vertical position into Format AutoShape | Layout | Advanced, the measurement is interpreted relative to the current top of the body text, not relative to the top of the page as you would expect, and not relative to the center of the page as your second guess might be. If you drag the graphic and release it, Word reads the vertical position relative to the (real) top of the page and enters that number into the box. It then interprets that number relative to the current top of text and positions the graphic accordingly! The resulting behavior is quite startling. The bottom line is that dragging into position is hopeless. Of course this includes the dragging involved in drawing the object if you are using the drawing tools. If you set vertical position relative to the text anchor instead of relative to the page and type in a number, everything works. However, if you then click the radio button to change the position into "relative to page", Word again reads the box position on the screen as relative to the real page and enters the number and interprets it as relative to current top of text. So the reason that the text and insertion point jump upward is that when you let go of the mouse button when drawing a graphic, Word measures the position of the graphic relative to the real page (i.e. some inches below the top of page) and interprets that measurement as relative to the top of text i.e. your paragraph, so the graphic ends up below the paragraph. Word then centers the combination of paragraph and graphic on the page. Since the graphic was below the paragraph and the combination had to be centered, the paragraph had to move up. You can work around it by setting Format AutoShape | Layout | Advanced | "Move object with text" and typing a number into the box. This makes the vertical position relative to the anchor paragraph instead of relative to the page. As your text moves the graphic will move, which may or may not be convenient. Whatever you do, don't drag. Bob S |
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