HTML Layout, vertical alignment question

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Mike Williams

With Windows XP Pro SP-1, Office XP, Word 2002 SR-2, Outlook 2002 SR-2:
I'm trying to do something I can do in Outlook, but I can't figure out
how in Word. I want to insert a small picture into a line of text, and
have both the text and the picture centered vertically in the line space.
Here's a rough illustration of what I want:

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With OL, set to create new messages as HTML, I could insert a picture and
get a setting for Layout, Alignment, with a default "baseline" and an
option "middle" that did exactly what I want. It was a picture layout
setting.
In Word, I've experimented with various methods of inserting a picture, and
can't find anything that works; I've tried formatting/saving as HTML,
various ways, with no luck. Any suggestions would be very much
appreciated. THANKS.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

I can't see any way to do this with an inline graphic, but if you change the
wrapping to Square (on the Layout tab of Format Picture or using the Text
Wrapping button on the Picture toolbar), then go to Layout | Advanced |
Picture Position, you can set the vertical position to Centered relative to
Line.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Mike WIlliams

Thanks for the reply, Suzanne. I tried your suggestion, and couldn't
make it work. I don't think the picture got centered in the way I
wanted, but the bigger problem was that the picture, which is about 3
to 5 line tall, wound up with the surrounding text wrapped around it,
square-like, and no matter what alignment settings I try, the picture
is no longer positioned correctly in the flow of text on a line.

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word1 word2 word3 picpic word4 word5
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This was easy in the Outlook HTML environment. dang. I've found a
few other inquiries with this problem, but no solutions. Anyone?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

You could try inserting it inline and then lowering it the needed amount
(Format | Font | Character Spacing).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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