group text & photo together

[andyr2111]

How do I group a photo and text together and move it up & down the page
together like you would with a text paragraph in microsoft word? Trying to
create a property list in price order which is constantly changing so need to
create a space between price ranges to allow me to insert or delete a
property inc phot & text?
Only text will move but not with the picture next to it?
Tried to create seperate text boxes but when you insert a picture the text
over writes on top of photo! Tried everything I can think of but can't figure
it out.
Thanks Andy. you can call me anytime on 07740 600 524 to discuss.

 

[Mary Sauer]

If the photo is inside the text box, right-click the photo, format picture, layout
tab, object position, inline with text.

 

[Erika]

How do I group a photo and text together and move it up & down the page
together like you would with a text paragraph in microsoft word? Trying to

Arrange them the way you want them. click the photo, hold down the shift
key, click the text, click Arrange (look at the top menu), click Group.

hth!

 

[NightowlMania]

Hi Andy,

To group text and photos, simply click on the object or text, and then press
the Shift Key, and click on the rest you want to bunch together (holding down
shift all the while). Then you will see in the lower-right-corner a couple
of boxes angled and overlapping one another. Click this to group the stuff
together. Now, when you move it around, it all goes as one unit.

The 2nd issue seems like a layering thing. One takes precedence over the
other. If you insert a picture first, then add a text box to write text in
2nd, this overlaps what was inserted first. So, to decide what overlaps
what, right-mouse-click on one of the objects. Go to Order and you will see
four options. The forward and backward says, "Hey, I want you to be bumped
up or down, from this layer's position." The "Send to Back or Front" knocks
it all the way to the front or back, if multiple layered pictures and text
have been created. So, if you had a picture of a beach ball with text
written over it, and you want that beach ball to overlap the text, you will
use the "Bring Forward or Send Front" choice. Picture them as 3-dimensional
layers. Things that are Forward or Front take top precedence...until a new
layer is created thereafter, then that new one overlaps that one.

If you wish to have text write through a pic, but the white background still
shows (and you want the picture to show through), you need to click on the
text, and then click the Paint Bucket icon at the toolbar on top, then click
No Fill. This allows the image behind it to show through. Wasn't sure if
you needed or wanted to know that.

Hope this helps!

 

[andyr2111]

Hello, Thanks for the advice but what I am trying to achieve didin't work!
I work in an estate agents office and we publish our own property list using
microsoft publisher, which is about 6 x A4 pages of detail which has a
thumbnail picture of a property with a breif description of text. There can
be 50 properties on this list and they are all in price order. When a new
property comes on for sale ie: £100,000 I may have to insert it between a
property priced at £95,000 & one priced at £105,000. To insert this what I
currently have to do is move every single property down approx 5 spaces to be
able to insert the new details, moving 49 property details down can take
forever to do so what I need to know is how can I move down the 49 properties
down idealy by pressing the return key like you can do in microsoft word so
that it moves everything down with each press of the return key? Thanks.

 

[NightowlMania]

Hi Andy,

Sorry that I didn't get back to you sooner...Well, I don't think you can
just use the Return button to make everything move for ya. The best bet I
can think of is to group everything, so it all moves as a unit, and with the
mouse, move the group over manually (or, for more precise movement, use the
Nudge tool), to make room for whatever new listing you need to add. For the
row that is gonna have the new listing, just don't group all the adjacent
stuff; rather, group what will be to the right of the new listing, and make a
separate grouping of what is gonna be to the left of the new listing
(otherwise, if you group all of that row as one unit, you won't be able to
move them apart where the new listing needs to be wedged in--common sense you
probably already knew, but I figured I'd cover all ground just in case).
Everything else below it an be on large grouping/unit. Either way, it seems
grouping is the answer to minimize the otherwise tedious task of moving one
listing at a time.