Making pictures stay put

[Del Cotter]

I want to lay out a simple newsletter with a combination of newspaper
columns and some photographs, and I'd rather not go to a dedicated DTP
package to do it. I used to work with imported Excel charts a lot when
I had earlier versions of Word, but since we got Office 2000 at work I
have been unable to make a picture or imported graphic stay where I want
it.

I know this is a vague and unspecific request, but can anyone give me
some hints as to how to nail down graphics with respect to the page,
paragraph, margin, line, or character, and make them stay where I put
them, and move gracefully and sensibly with the text?

(Please, before you respond with advice to go to this or that menu
option, be sure that it really does help, or else your advice will be a
waste of your effort and my patience. Yes, I've seen all the check
boxes and radio buttons, but Word seems to either ignore them or reset
them if it feels like it. It drives me crazy.)

"Lock anchor" helps, but not a lot.

Maybe there's a setup option somewhere that says "let the user decide
where to put graphics/let the program decide"? That would explain why I
have such problems.

 

[Guest]

I agree; floating graphics can drive a person crazy! Unless you are setting up a complex layout -- text flowing around the graphic or whatever -- your best bet is to

1. Double click on the graphic, and when the Format Picture dialog box opens, click the Layout tab
2. Select the "In Line with Text" wrapping style

This stops your graphic from floating and makes it just another character in a paragraph. Give the graphic it's own paragraph. Then you can set space above/below, left and right indents, center or right aligned, etc. by formatting the paragraph that the graphic is nestled in. Note that you won't be able to drag the picture around to reposition it the way you can when it floats -- it's just another paragraph and behaves the same as any other

HTH
-Susan W. Gallaghe


----- Del Cotter wrote: ----


I want to lay out a simple newsletter with a combination of newspaper
columns and some photographs, and I'd rather not go to a dedicated DTP
package to do it. I used to work with imported Excel charts a lot when
I had earlier versions of Word, but since we got Office 2000 at work I
have been unable to make a picture or imported graphic stay where I want
it

I know this is a vague and unspecific request, but can anyone give me
some hints as to how to nail down graphics with respect to the page,
paragraph, margin, line, or character, and make them stay where I put
them, and move gracefully and sensibly with the text

(Please, before you respond with advice to go to this or that menu
option, be sure that it really does help, or else your advice will be a
waste of your effort and my patience. Yes, I've seen all the check
boxes and radio buttons, but Word seems to either ignore them or reset
them if it feels like it. It drives me crazy.

"Lock anchor" helps, but not a lot

Maybe there's a setup option somewhere that says "let the user decide
where to put graphics/let the program decide"? That would explain why I
have such problems

 

[Del Cotter]

Susan, thanks for the advice, I appreciate it. I was recently trying to
position a small graphic of the cover of a novel for a book review in a
newsletter I was writing. The graphic was to stay below and at the left
margin of the section heading (i.e.. in the top left corner of the first
paragraph of normal text) in one of two newspaper columns, while the
text wrapped around it to the right. This was the most recent and most
severe problem.

It's a bit dispiriting to learn that I can't do the things I want with
this word processor, without having to go to a DTP package, but that's
the way the cookie crumbles. At least now I know it's not something
simple I'm missing.

I agree; floating graphics can drive a person crazy! Unless you are
setting up a complex layout -- text flowing around the graphic or
whatever -- your best bet is to:

1. Double click on the graphic, and when the Format Picture dialog box
opens, click the Layout tab.
2. Select the "In Line with Text" wrapping style.

This stops your graphic from floating and makes it just another
character in a paragraph. Give the graphic it's own paragraph. Then you
can set space above/below, left and right indents, center or right
aligned, etc. by formatting the paragraph that the graphic is nestled
in. Note that you won't be able to drag the picture around to reposition
it the way you can when it floats -- it's just another paragraph and
behaves the same as any other.

HTH!
-Susan W. Gallagher