Ok I could not fathom that bit out sorry. Instead, I have cheated. I
formatted the graphic how I wanted it, saved it as autotext. Then printed
out a whole sheet of labels with the graphic. Then opened up a new document
and inserted the text I required, then the labels with the graphics printed
on them, I insterted them into the printer and voila! I just didn't follow
the correct procedure.
Thanks for your help.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Tables use Normal style - Because of the difficulties of combining floating
images and text in labels I would be inclined to reformat normal style for
this document to include sufficient 'space before' inthe paragraph format of
the style to push the text down to where you want it, then use shift+enter
to break the lines.
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laceyjo wrote:
Okay Many thanks Graham! I have now cracked it. I have my angel
graphic set behind the text and have my text in front. There is only
one problem now, I have centred my text but instead of the text being
centred at the top of the label, I want it centred back smack in the
middle of my angel graphic. When I press enter, thinking this will
move the text down a line or so, the entire thing, text and graphic
move down together. How can I just get the text to move down a tad?
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
This is explained in the link posted earlier. The fact that I chose
to use Word Art is really irrelevant. This is just a type of
graphic. Once you have the graphic in the first label revert to the
procedure shown in that link
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm . A workaround for the
problem you are having is described there below the watermark images
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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
laceyjo wrote:
Thanks for your detailed reply. I have got as far as the bit where
I have to copy the edited/washedout image onto the rest of the
labels on the page. When I click copy and go to the other labels
and select paste, it automatically jumps back to the first label
and pastes it on top and it appears as the unwashed image.
What have I done wrong?
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format
menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the
Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go
the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that
you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell
completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click
on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar
to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the
text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the
Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog.
Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to
the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the
labels as if the picture was not there.
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Hope this helps.
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"laceyjo" wrote in message
...
Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand
it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I
want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text
centered and have the angel image
on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to
do this please?
Many Thanks
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm
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"laceyjo" wrote in message
...
I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the
foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background.
The graphic is from clipart.
"laceyjo" wrote:
I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am
trying to
insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be
centred
within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text
jumps up to
the
top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work.
If I press
enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly
explain
how
exactly this can be done please?