A Problem Placing Arrows in a Document

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I'm placing arrows in a long Master document that's composed of tables. Most
of my arrows are behaving just fine, but in one file I am having a lot of
trouble placing the arrows. When I try to move them they disappear off the
page, or move out of control and I can't place them on the page. I've tried
to troubleshoot this by choosing different layout positions ("in front of
text", "square". "tight") but no luck. Other tables in the document handle
the arrows just fine but this one is a problem. Any thoughts about what could
be causing this?
Thanks for any insight you might be able to give me here.
Jerry Marino

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Jerry,

Most likely, there's some internal damage in this file. With graphics, it could
be in the document structure, in the paragraph structures or even, in this
case, in the table structures. Unfortunately, you don't mention the version of
Word involved in the problem, which makes trouble-shooting difficult...

I'd say: create a new document from the template you used for the MasterDoc.
Select all but the last paragraph mark of the problem document and copy/paste
into the new one. If that helps, recreate any headers/footers and other section
information, then save it. Remove the current sub-doc. Insert this one in its
place.

I'm placing arrows in a long Master document that's composed of tables. Most
of my arrows are behaving just fine, but in one file I am having a lot of
trouble placing the arrows. When I try to move them they disappear off the
page, or move out of control and I can't place them on the page. I've tried
to troubleshoot this by choosing different layout positions ("in front of
text", "square". "tight") but no luck. Other tables in the document handle
the arrows just fine but this one is a problem.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Thank you Cindy for your help...I'm going to try your solution...but I'd
also like to add that I'm using Word 2003 if this would help with any more
information to troubleshoot this.

Thanks again,

Jerry

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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but I'd
also like to add that I'm using Word 2003 if this would help with any more
information to troubleshoot this.

gives you more options, in any case

You could try saving in the XML file format. Close. Open the XML format file.
Save again as a Word document (*.doc) and test whether things are more
stable.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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