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Graphics Location Uncontrollable
I often insert partial screen captures into documents. They often are not in
the right place that I would like them to be. But it is nearly impossible to move them around. Also, if I am in the middle of a bulleted sequence and I insert a graphic in the middle, I'll either have to have bulleted items with no text or have to reset the start # for a new sequence so the graphic is in the right place. Is there an easy way to move graphics around in a document? |
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Graphics Location Uncontrollable
Mike,
I feel your pain. I do instruction manuals with lots of screen captures, drawings, etc. that have to go in with the text, and this has had me tearing my hair out for a long time. It can be done, however, so don't give up. Most of my 'pictorial inserts' want to go into the text with text flowing around them. If you just put a picture inline with the text, that's usually no problem. But fitting a photo or illustration smack-dab in the middle of a block of text sometimes has the picture flying off the page onto another, or disappearing entirely. Once you've done your Insert/Picture/From File (or just a 'paste'), you of course have to double-click the elusive photo (or Format/Picture) and mark it for Layout/Square. Yeah, right. (It's usually at that point that it whips around the page!) What's worked for me is more black magic than science. If you can go in under Advanced and specify a definite location for the picture... so many tenths of an inch below the paragraph, or with respect to the margins, etc., it then will hold still. Resist the temptation to grab the picture and nudge it around afterward, however; go back and change the dimension you put in instead. Play around with this and you will eventually get an intuitive feel for what to do. To start, just make it flush with the margin(s) or paragraph. Then start entering dimensions into the boxes and see where the picture goes. And... if you have any revelations in this area, don't forget to post them back here for the rest of us. Good luck! "Mike H." wrote: I often insert partial screen captures into documents. They often are not in the right place that I would like them to be. But it is nearly impossible to move them around. Also, if I am in the middle of a bulleted sequence and I insert a graphic in the middle, I'll either have to have bulleted items with no text or have to reset the start # for a new sequence so the graphic is in the right place. Is there an easy way to move graphics around in a document? |
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