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A Problem Placing Arrows in a Document
I'm placing arrows in a long Master document that's composed of tables. Most
of my arrows are behaving just fine, but in one file I am having a lot of trouble placing the arrows. When I try to move them they disappear off the page, or move out of control and I can't place them on the page. I've tried to troubleshoot this by choosing different layout positions ("in front of text", "square". "tight") but no luck. Other tables in the document handle the arrows just fine but this one is a problem. Any thoughts about what could be causing this? Thanks for any insight you might be able to give me here. Jerry Marino |
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Hi Jerry,
Most likely, there's some internal damage in this file. With graphics, it could be in the document structure, in the paragraph structures or even, in this case, in the table structures. Unfortunately, you don't mention the version of Word involved in the problem, which makes trouble-shooting difficult... I'd say: create a new document from the template you used for the MasterDoc. Select all but the last paragraph mark of the problem document and copy/paste into the new one. If that helps, recreate any headers/footers and other section information, then save it. Remove the current sub-doc. Insert this one in its place. I'm placing arrows in a long Master document that's composed of tables. Most of my arrows are behaving just fine, but in one file I am having a lot of trouble placing the arrows. When I try to move them they disappear off the page, or move out of control and I can't place them on the page. I've tried to troubleshoot this by choosing different layout positions ("in front of text", "square". "tight") but no luck. Other tables in the document handle the arrows just fine but this one is a problem. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Thank you Cindy for your help...I'm going to try your solution...but I'd also like to add that I'm using Word 2003 if this would help with any more information to troubleshoot this. Thanks again, Jerry "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi Jerry, Most likely, there's some internal damage in this file. With graphics, it could be in the document structure, in the paragraph structures or even, in this case, in the table structures. Unfortunately, you don't mention the version of Word involved in the problem, which makes trouble-shooting difficult... I'd say: create a new document from the template you used for the MasterDoc. Select all but the last paragraph mark of the problem document and copy/paste into the new one. If that helps, recreate any headers/footers and other section information, then save it. Remove the current sub-doc. Insert this one in its place. I'm placing arrows in a long Master document that's composed of tables. Most of my arrows are behaving just fine, but in one file I am having a lot of trouble placing the arrows. When I try to move them they disappear off the page, or move out of control and I can't place them on the page. I've tried to troubleshoot this by choosing different layout positions ("in front of text", "square". "tight") but no luck. Other tables in the document handle the arrows just fine but this one is a problem. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?R2VyYWxkIE1hcmlubw==?=,
but I'd also like to add that I'm using Word 2003 if this would help with any more information to troubleshoot this. gives you more options, in any case :-) You could try saving in the XML file format. Close. Open the XML format file. Save again as a Word document (*.doc) and test whether things are more stable. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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