Anchoring Graphics

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Melvin Stevens

MS claims that one can anchor graphics to a page, paragraph, etc in Word. I
am curious to know if they understand that locking a graphics to a page does
not work.

When I anchor a graphics to a page say at position (4",4"), I can paste from
my clipboard say 20 paragraph (number not important, but enough to cause
picture to move) and the picture will move from the page (physical) it was
locked to onto the next page(physical). As far as I can tell it seems to be
locking the graphic to a logical page is there some way to lock a graphic to
say the 2nd physical page of a document and have that picture remain in that
position regardless of any text changes made around it?

Melvin Stevens
 
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Jezebel

You've missed a little of what anchoring does. Every graphic is anchored to
a paragraph. The graphic always appears on the same page as that paragraph.
Normally, if you move a graphic the anchor is shifted to the paragraph
nearest the graphic. If you lock the anchor, the anchor is fixed to that
paragraph regardless of their relative positions; if the graphic is
positioned at (4,4) then it will appear at (4,4) on whatever page contains
the anchoring paragraph.

Two methods you can use to fix the graphic to a specific page: 1) lock the
anchor to some text guaranteed to be on that page (such as the heading), if
any. or 2) make that page a section of its own and anchor the graphic to the
header or footer.
 
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