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Making pictures stay put
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 Thanks to the overwhelming volume of UBE, I am now rejecting *all* email sent to . Please send your email to del2 instead. |
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Making pictures stay put
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 ----- 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 Thanks to the overwhelming volume of UBE, I am now rejecting *all* email sent to . Please send your email to del2 instead. |
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Making pictures stay put
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. In message , Susan W. Gallagher writes 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 -- Del Cotter Thanks to the overwhelming volume of UBE, I am now rejecting *all* email sent to . Please send your email to del2 instead. |
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Making pictures stay put
Del,
In the example you cite below, you have two options -- you can either make a two-celled table for the graphic and the first paragraph of the article, or you can insert the graphic as the first "character" in the paragraph and format it as a Drop Cap. Both of these options will give you a graphic that "stays put". I've formatted a lot of newsletters in Word with great results. But sometimes, it takes a little imagination. Do remember that, for all it's DTP-ishness, Word *is* just a word processor, so you won't achieve the precise layout options you would with something like Quark or InDesign. HTH! -Susan W. Gallagher ----- Del Cotter wrote: ----- 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. In message , Susan W. Gallagher writes 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 -- Del Cotter Thanks to the overwhelming volume of UBE, I am now rejecting *all* email sent to . Please send your email to del2 instead. |
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