Grouping shapes with pictures

[JR Hester]

Wordâ„¢2007 on WinXP.

I constantly include screen captures in my documentation and annotate with
circles, boxes, arrows and so forth to clarify textual instructions. I too am
dismayed with teh failure of teh 2007 version to allow grouping of shapes
with pictures.

I have read the answers from jay Freedman and Beth Melon from back in 2007
and 2008. I was disappointed to find that I cannot paste a picture onto a
drawing canvas. Paste keeps inserting teh picture above the canvas.

Has anyone found a different work around within Word? Or is there some
setting I need to change to allow pasting pictures from the clipboard onto
the drawing canvas?
Thank you.

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you set the Text Wrapping of the picture to "In line with text," you can
cut and paste it into a drawing canvas.

 

[JR Hester]

Stefan,

Thanks for your reply. I was following an earlier instruction to copy to
clipboard and paste from there, which did not work for me, it just contimued
to paste outside the canvas. Using copy then p-aste from eth right click
menus did indeed get the picture on teh drawing canvas and I was abkle to add
shapes and group the picture plus shapes grouped. Thank you.

I did try going that one step further and drag the picture/shapes group off
the canvas for placement in my document. Once I moved the grouped image from
the canvas the alignment options were disabled. Seems i can get one or teh
other but not both together in Word 2007.

Again thanks for your pointer, it got me one step closer to my final
destination

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you want the picture outside of the canvas, and you want to be able to
position it, choose a different Text Wrapping option than "In line with
text."