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Wandering text box
I added a text box to a full page of text in a very long document . The box
is about 4" square and is positioned at the top right of the print portion of the page (not in the margins). Before filling the box I set the attribute to have the text wrap around the box which occurred quite nicely. I then set the focus to the interior of the box and attempted to add a .jpg image in the box using InsertPictureFrom File...[ref to .jpg file]. The picture goes in just fine but the text box jumps to the prior page. I cannot move the box back to the original location as it always jumps to the prior page. I have tried turning off the move with text attribute. I have tried assigning an absolute location, and in fact I've twiddled every attribute on the format text box advanced options. Why does this occur and how can I prevent this action? Thanks for your help. |
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Well, to begin with, you do not need a text box to insert a wrapped picture.
-- 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. "Jim K" wrote in message ... I added a text box to a full page of text in a very long document . The box is about 4" square and is positioned at the top right of the print portion of the page (not in the margins). Before filling the box I set the attribute to have the text wrap around the box which occurred quite nicely. I then set the focus to the interior of the box and attempted to add a ..jpg image in the box using InsertPictureFrom File...[ref to .jpg file]. The picture goes in just fine but the text box jumps to the prior page. I cannot move the box back to the original location as it always jumps to the prior page. I have tried turning off the move with text attribute. I have tried assigning an absolute location, and in fact I've twiddled every attribute on the format text box advanced options. Why does this occur and how can I prevent this action? Thanks for your help. |
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Hello Suzanne,
I do know that, but there is also a figure label under the picture, and to keep both of them together it seems appropriate to enclose both of them in the text box. I have in the past used a table two elements tall and one wide for this and flowed the text around the table, but that has other problems... I really would like to solve this problem. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, to begin with, you do not need a text box to insert a wrapped picture. -- 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. "Jim K" wrote in message ... I added a text box to a full page of text in a very long document . The box is about 4" square and is positioned at the top right of the print portion of the page (not in the margins). Before filling the box I set the attribute to have the text wrap around the box which occurred quite nicely. I then set the focus to the interior of the box and attempted to add a ..jpg image in the box using InsertPictureFrom File...[ref to .jpg file]. The picture goes in just fine but the text box jumps to the prior page. I cannot move the box back to the original location as it always jumps to the prior page. I have tried turning off the move with text attribute. I have tried assigning an absolute location, and in fact I've twiddled every attribute on the format text box advanced options. Why does this occur and how can I prevent this action? Thanks for your help. |
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Note that if you are going to want to generate a table of figures, Word will
not see a caption in a text box. A frame is more suitable for this purpose. -- 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. "Jim K" wrote in message news Hello Suzanne, I do know that, but there is also a figure label under the picture, and to keep both of them together it seems appropriate to enclose both of them in the text box. I have in the past used a table two elements tall and one wide for this and flowed the text around the table, but that has other problems... I really would like to solve this problem. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, to begin with, you do not need a text box to insert a wrapped picture. -- 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. "Jim K" wrote in message ... I added a text box to a full page of text in a very long document . The box is about 4" square and is positioned at the top right of the print portion of the page (not in the margins). Before filling the box I set the attribute to have the text wrap around the box which occurred quite nicely. I then set the focus to the interior of the box and attempted to add a ..jpg image in the box using InsertPictureFrom File...[ref to .jpg file]. The picture goes in just fine but the text box jumps to the prior page. I cannot move the box back to the original location as it always jumps to the prior page. I have tried turning off the move with text attribute. I have tried assigning an absolute location, and in fact I've twiddled every attribute on the format text box advanced options. Why does this occur and how can I prevent this action? Thanks for your help. |
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Good morning Suzanne,
Yes I do understand that problem. I am not planning to do a table of figures for this book as the document has over 400 of them that would make the table at least 8 pages long and at the cost of printing today, it is not worth it. In other books I've used frames as you suggest and that works OK. Any ideas on why the box wanders when it is filled? Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Note that if you are going to want to generate a table of figures, Word will not see a caption in a text box. A frame is more suitable for this purpose. -- 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. "Jim K" wrote in message news Hello Suzanne, I do know that, but there is also a figure label under the picture, and to keep both of them together it seems appropriate to enclose both of them in the text box. I have in the past used a table two elements tall and one wide for this and flowed the text around the table, but that has other problems... I really would like to solve this problem. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, to begin with, you do not need a text box to insert a wrapped picture. -- 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. "Jim K" wrote in message ... I added a text box to a full page of text in a very long document . The box is about 4" square and is positioned at the top right of the print portion of the page (not in the margins). Before filling the box I set the attribute to have the text wrap around the box which occurred quite nicely. I then set the focus to the interior of the box and attempted to add a ..jpg image in the box using InsertPictureFrom File...[ref to .jpg file]. The picture goes in just fine but the text box jumps to the prior page. I cannot move the box back to the original location as it always jumps to the prior page. I have tried turning off the move with text attribute. I have tried assigning an absolute location, and in fact I've twiddled every attribute on the format text box advanced options. Why does this occur and how can I prevent this action? Thanks for your help. |
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Any wrapped object is anchored to a text paragraph and will move with it.
Although you can specify its position on the page, it will appear on the same page as the paragraph it is anchored to. Beyond that, the positioning of wrapped graphics is a mystery to me, which is why I avoid them insofar as possible. Unless I absolutely, positively have to wrap text around graphics, I usually leave them and their captions inline (with whichever is above formatted as "Keep with next") or put them in a borderless table cell. -- 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. "Jim K" wrote in message ... Good morning Suzanne, Yes I do understand that problem. I am not planning to do a table of figures for this book as the document has over 400 of them that would make the table at least 8 pages long and at the cost of printing today, it is not worth it. In other books I've used frames as you suggest and that works OK. Any ideas on why the box wanders when it is filled? Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Note that if you are going to want to generate a table of figures, Word will not see a caption in a text box. A frame is more suitable for this purpose. -- 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. "Jim K" wrote in message news Hello Suzanne, I do know that, but there is also a figure label under the picture, and to keep both of them together it seems appropriate to enclose both of them in the text box. I have in the past used a table two elements tall and one wide for this and flowed the text around the table, but that has other problems... I really would like to solve this problem. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, to begin with, you do not need a text box to insert a wrapped picture. -- 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. "Jim K" wrote in message ... I added a text box to a full page of text in a very long document .. The box is about 4" square and is positioned at the top right of the print portion of the page (not in the margins). Before filling the box I set the attribute to have the text wrap around the box which occurred quite nicely. I then set the focus to the interior of the box and attempted to add a ..jpg image in the box using InsertPictureFrom File...[ref to .jpg file]. The picture goes in just fine but the text box jumps to the prior page. I cannot move the box back to the original location as it always jumps to the prior page. I have tried turning off the move with text attribute. I have tried assigning an absolute location, and in fact I've twiddled every attribute on the format text box advanced options. Why does this occur and how can I prevent this action? Thanks for your help. |
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