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Inline/Floating Objects
I get the distinction between floating & inline, but how do I convert an
inline object into a floating object? (WORD 2003) Failing that, how do I make all my autoshapes floating (unless I say otherwise). As things stand, WORD is unusable. |
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Thanks for trying to help, Dean - but the immediate issue is with Autoshapes
(arrows etc.) which seem to be automatically created as inline, and cannot therefore be selected, and therefore cannot be converted. And yes, my documents (created in WORD 2000) have a lot of graphics. A great part of my work is maintaining documents - so I have to be able to control fine detail in existing material, without having to create it from scratch. WORD 2003 is messing up my documents, badly. Right now, it looks easier to demand that my IT department downgrade me back to WORD 2000. "DeanH" wrote: All of the wrapping styles other than InLineWithText are termed "floating". I am sure there is a macro way of doing this, but for me the simpliest would be to select your first image, Format Picture, Layout tab, select the "floating" wrapping style you want, OK. Go to the Select Browse Object button (bottom right of the Word Window or Alt+Ctrl+Home) and choose graphics. Press the down arrow to jump to the next graphic down the document. Select the image, press F4 (to repeat the Wrapping Style you selected previously), then clcik the Down Arrow again to go to the next image, repeat. I hope you dont have 2000+ images in your document, if you do, maybe hope that a macro-guru will hop in here with a solution. Beware though, if you change all the images to a floating style you will have to go through your document correct the positioning of the image. At least now you know how to jump through the document to each iamge quickly. Also in Tools, Options, Edit tab, you can change the option for the "Insert/paste pictures as:" to whichever Wrapping Style option you wish. So from then on all images inserted/pasted will be the wrapping style you want. Hope this helps DeanH "DMC" wrote: I get the distinction between floating & inline, but how do I convert an inline object into a floating object? (WORD 2003) Failing that, how do I make all my autoshapes floating (unless I say otherwise). As things stand, WORD is unusable. |
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"DeanH" wrote:
Personally, I don't have Autoshapes, freetext annotations, and Drawn objects in my Word documents, I tend to use good'ol PowerPoint for such images, and insert these as either jpg or png (depending of quality required) and I find that this reduces the file size bloat possiblities as well as layout and paginatiojn problems that floating items can cause. I don't have that option. These documents have to be translated - including the text within graphics - so they have to be available, within the document. I dread to think how our translators will deal with these anomalies. |
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Right click Format Shape Layout tab
Change the wrapping style to anything other than "In line with text" and it will be floating. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "DMC" wrote in message ... I get the distinction between floating & inline, but how do I convert an inline object into a floating object? (WORD 2003) Failing that, how do I make all my autoshapes floating (unless I say otherwise). As things stand, WORD is unusable. |
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Thank you, Tony - but the problem was that these inline objects couldn't be
selected, and therefore couldn't have their properties changed. Dean's F4 trick got me past that - but it's still a lousy piece of MS design. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Right click Format Shape Layout tab Change the wrapping style to anything other than "In line with text" and it will be floating. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "DMC" wrote in message ... I get the distinction between floating & inline, but how do I convert an inline object into a floating object? (WORD 2003) Failing that, how do I make all my autoshapes floating (unless I say otherwise). As things stand, WORD is unusable. |
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You should be able to select floating objects that are behind text with the
Select Object tool (a white arrow) on the drawing toolbar. For Word 2007, you can add the tool to the QAT (Quick Access Toolbar) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DMC wrote: Thank you, Tony - but the problem was that these inline objects couldn't be selected, and therefore couldn't have their properties changed. Dean's F4 trick got me past that - but it's still a lousy piece of MS design. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Right click Format Shape Layout tab Change the wrapping style to anything other than "In line with text" and it will be floating. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "DMC" wrote in message ... I get the distinction between floating & inline, but how do I convert an inline object into a floating object? (WORD 2003) Failing that, how do I make all my autoshapes floating (unless I say otherwise). As things stand, WORD is unusable. |
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Not sure what F4 trick you're referring to and I'm a little surprised that
you couldn't select inline objects but, if you're now able to do what you want, I'm happy. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "DMC" wrote in message ... Thank you, Tony - but the problem was that these inline objects couldn't be selected, and therefore couldn't have their properties changed. Dean's F4 trick got me past that - but it's still a lousy piece of MS design. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Right click Format Shape Layout tab Change the wrapping style to anything other than "In line with text" and it will be floating. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "DMC" wrote in message ... I get the distinction between floating & inline, but how do I convert an inline object into a floating object? (WORD 2003) Failing that, how do I make all my autoshapes floating (unless I say otherwise). As things stand, WORD is unusable. |
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But note that the Select Objects tool is on the Home tab in Word 2007.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You should be able to select floating objects that are behind text with the Select Object tool (a white arrow) on the drawing toolbar. For Word 2007, you can add the tool to the QAT (Quick Access Toolbar) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DMC wrote: Thank you, Tony - but the problem was that these inline objects couldn't be selected, and therefore couldn't have their properties changed. Dean's F4 trick got me past that - but it's still a lousy piece of MS design. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Right click Format Shape Layout tab Change the wrapping style to anything other than "In line with text" and it will be floating. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "DMC" wrote in message ... I get the distinction between floating & inline, but how do I convert an inline object into a floating object? (WORD 2003) Failing that, how do I make all my autoshapes floating (unless I say otherwise). As things stand, WORD is unusable. |
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