placing images in specific place sin documents

[Ben]

I am trying to put some small clip art in a document in specific
locations and so am sticking them in text boxes so I can move them
anywhere without messing up the text around them. Putting the image in a
text box is easy. I then make sure there is no margin so that I can
resize the text box so the images takes up all the space and I remove
the border line so it isn't visible.

The problem then is that I grab the text box to drag it around and I
instead end up dragging the image out. Selecting the text box will end
up selecting the image. I tried putting a small margin around the image
and putting it behind the text so the margin doesn't rub it out and then
I have trouble clicking back on the text box or the images as it just
relocates the cursor in the document.

Can someone give me some guidelines on how to do this basic task?

Thanks,
Ben

 

[Jay Freedman]

There is no need to put images into text boxes. Any positioning you
can do with a text box, you can also do with a picture/clip
art/graphic -- in fact, Word treats text boxes the same as images made
with the drawing tools.

In Word 2003 or 2007, you can go into the Options dialog and choose
the default text wrapping for inserting pictures, and you can change
the text wrapping of any picture after inserting it. "In line with
text" is treated the same as a character, but any other wrapping
allows you to drag the picture, or right-click it and choose the
Format Picture (or Format Object, or whatever) command. In the Layout
tab of the dialog, you can set the relative or absolute position.

One more tip: If you set a picture behind text, click the Select tool
(in Word 2003 it's on the Drawing toolbar; in Word 2007 it's on the
right end of the Home ribbon) and use that to click on the picture.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You don't need to place the images in text boxes; just change their wrapping
to Square, and you can drag them around the same as you would a text box.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Ben]

You don't need to place the images in text boxes; just change their
wrapping to Square, and you can drag them around the same as you would a
text box.

Perfect. Thanks.