Controlling Picture placement

[Todd Smart]

I've been using Word since it replaced word perfect...am a software
engineer...write tech specs with it all the time.

I've never had a problem with cutting an image from another app into the
clipboard and pasting into a word doc.

Just recently, I began to have serious problems with controlling the picture
placement insid my word docs. I mean ANY picture....created in word,
imported from outside of word, or cut-and-paste from the clipboard.

For example, I can past an image just between 1 and 2 ... like:

1

[image]

2

If I then try to move this image above 1 or below 2 ... or heaven forbid i
try to paste another image in there somewhere and drag-and-drop stuff around.
The results are basically random.

I've tried changing the paragraph attributes and all of the text-wrap
attributes...i mean i've spent hours on this....and i'm just dealing with
2-images in this tech spec.

What gives? Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing with the most recent
office updates installed? This machine is basically vanilla...a new laptop
with Windows Server 2003 on it and all MS patches/updates.


PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN! Much appreciated in advance.

For now....i'm going to strip out the images and hyperlink to them on a web
server or something .... not a great thing when people are reading a print
version of the spec, eh?


Regards,

Todd Smart

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

You might want to check out this TechTrax article...

Understanding Frames and Anchors in Word
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=482

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
Editor/TechTrax Ezine

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