Do not use autoshapes, Text boxes or Word Art. These all utilise VML
graphics which only display in Internet Explorer 5.5 and later on
Windows PCs, other browsers will see either nothing or poor quality
..gif images. VML also uses Absolute Positioning, so it is not the
autoshape moving away from the images, it's the images moving away
from the absolutely positioned text boxes. Nesting tables will only
make the matter worse.
For this kind of document I would either
1) (best option) produce it in Word or Publisher, and convert to
..PDF, then import the .PDF file into the web and link to it,
2) layout the page with tables and make the best presentation within
the limits imposed by tables. Use CSS to create/remove cell borders
where appropriate.
3) If an Intranet where all users are on Windows with IE5.5 or IE6
and have good eyesight, use VML graphics, but fix the layout in
absolutely positioned layers and fix the font-size (by using pixels to
specify the font). This will not work in non-IE browsers, and if the
users need to enlarge the font.
