How to line up grapics and text?

[Peyton Todd]

Hello.

I'll describe my situation in a moment, but Word gurus may know the answer
to my question without reading it all, so I'll try that simple way first:

How do I make graphics line up with the top of text lines instead of the
bottom?

(I want this to be running text, like a paragraph, and the graphics aren't
much bigger than the height of a line of text, and nowhere near as big if
lines are double-spaced.)

The details:

My document contains text of sentences in Amenrican Sign Language (ASL),
with icons beside it that readers will be able to click on to see video
clips. (Actually not .ICO icons, but .GIFs) I want the TOP of each icon to be
justified with the top of the text, and so far this has been easy since I put
the text in one cell of a table and the GIF in another.

But now I have encountered a situation where I want separate, smaller icons
for each clause in a long sentence, and I want them to also be justified at
the top. To make this look right, I want the icon right after each clause, as
though in the body of a text. But when I try to apply the above-mentioned
method I am forced to draw in column boudaries that don't all line up from
one row to another, and I find that I cannot make all the borders of such a
complex table invisible.

But the whole table already says to justify everything at the top of each row.

Thanks for your help.

Peyton Todd

 

[Jezebel]

Select the inline graphic. Go to Format > Font. On the Character Spacing
tab, experiment with the Position setting. You'll need to lower the position
by a few points. If you're using the same icons repeatedly, once you've got
it right, save the icon as an AutoText entry: the positioning info will be
saved with it.

 

[Peyton Todd]

Thanks, Jezebel. That worked.

Select the inline graphic. Go to Format > Font. On the Character Spacing
tab, experiment with the Position setting. You'll need to lower the position
by a few points. If you're using the same icons repeatedly, once you've got
it right, save the icon as an AutoText entry: the positioning info will be
saved with it.