20 MB document

[Rita]

Is there any way to keep a 20 MB document (contains 187
jpeg pictures) all in one piece? Every time an edit is
made, the pictures just go everywhere in spite of the
fact that they have been anchored. This is a new problem
for me, so I would appreciate any help.

 

[Bill Le May]

I know what you mean. I have seen this in Word going back several versions.
I look forward to hearing the right solution from the experts here, but my
only satisfactory solution has been putting the pictures in tables. It's
extra work to get tight text wrapping, but it does keep the pictures more or
less where you want them. Good luck.

Bill

 

[Rita]

Thanks for your reply, Bill. The originator of the
document did put the pictures in tables and it became up
to me to put them back in place. After putting them back
in place and anchoring them, the next time I opened up
the document they were all over the place again. You're
probably right about the text wrapping being the key.
I'll try your suggestion, and thanks again.

 

[Bill]

Thanks for your reply, Bill. The originator of the
document did put the pictures in tables and it became up
to me to put them back in place. After putting them back
in place and anchoring them, the next time I opened up
the document they were all over the place again. You're
probably right about the text wrapping being the key.
I'll try your suggestion, and thanks again.

If you get no other suggestions, keep the pictures in tables and use Merge
Cells to accomplish the text wrapping in the surrounding cells, if only at a
crude level.

 

[Jim Scarano]

Sounds like your images are ??floating??
Select each image and right mouse it to get the properties dialogue box.
Select Format Picture and then select the Layout Tab.
Choose ??in line with text?? and hit OK
This has the effect of placing the image in line with text and can then be formatted just like a paragraph.
You can centre it, resize it, place a caption etc. And it will stay there where you put it. Of course you can cut and move it to another spot in the document if that??s what you want to do just like you would copy and paste any other block of text.

 

[Bill Le May]

Rita's the one with the question, not me. For myself, I prefer to have
images floating and usually like to have text wrap tight, but Word can't
seem to handle more than a few images before it starts doing the stuff that
Rita reported in her original post.

Sounds like your images are ??floating??
Select each image and right mouse it to get the properties dialogue box.
Select Format Picture and then select the Layout Tab.
Choose ??in line with text?? and hit OK
This has the effect of placing the image in line with text and can then be

formatted just like a paragraph.

You can centre it, resize it, place a caption etc. And it will stay there

where you put it. Of course you can cut and move it to another spot in the
document if that??s what you want to do just like you would copy and paste
any other block of text.