How to make ink pen markings stick with the text when it moves?

[John]

I have a tablet and like to review my documents with the pen in Word. I will
circle words or sections and write comments in the margin and even directly
on the text..

The problems is when I add or remove lines above the marked section, the pen
markings and the text move independently and I lose the context of my changes
or remarks.

Anyone know how I can make the pen markings stick with the text they were
written on when I move that text around?

Or do you know that it can't be done? This, of course. would make Word much
less valuable on a tablet.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Cindy M.]

In essence, an ink mark-up is no different from any other
graphic. It can be set to "Move with text" or to be static
in relation to the page. In a quick test I just made, "Move
with text" is the default, but that could change if you
start dragging the markup around, I suppose...

You can access the "Move with text" option through the
standard graphics formatting dialog box.(You don't mention
the version of Word, so I can't give you exact steps how to
get there, but the right-click menu is usually good.) Go to
the Layout tab and click "Advanced".

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
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Jun 17 2005)
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[John]

Thanks for the help, Cindy.

I tried it out and you are correct - the default behavior is that the ink
moves with the text. I tried erasures, edits and a move of a sub-block in
the pen comments and the default behavior seemed to be maintained - the pen
written comments tracked with the text. I'm not sure what I did to lose the
desired default behavior but it has happened more than once.

I'm working in Word 2007.

Thinking that I'm likely to run into this again I tried a right click on the
pen comments graphic. No move with text' option is offered in 2007, just
Order, Grouping, Format Ink, etc. ; and nothing I could identify in the
Format Ink property sheet. Neither the Page Layout tab nor the Pen tab (which
appears when the pen comment is selected) have an 'Advanced' option or a
'Move with text' choice and I can't identify any equivalent.

Do you have any idea where the 'Move with text' option might be in Word
2007? Or if it has been dropped in the upgrade?

Appreciatively,

John

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?=,

Thinking that I'm likely to run into this again I tried a right click on the
pen comments graphic. No move with text' option is offered in 2007, just
Order, Grouping, Format Ink, etc. ;

Format Ink brings up a dialog box. Layout/Advanced/Picture Position (same as
for any graphic)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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