Iimage shifting & sizing

[Neville]

Microsoft Word can be extermely infuriating when it comes to altering
position and sizes of images. Issues such as sudden displacement of images
immediately to the extreme top of the page when moved towards the top of the
page, these images completely disappearing when their wrapping style is
changed, and the rough shifting of postions where images will automatically
snap to a large scale grid despite a need for minimal movement.

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[CyberTaz]

I truly appreciate your frustration, but keep in mind that Word is a _word_
processing program, not a page layout program. The fact that MS has seen fit
to cram it with 'features' in an attempt to make it appear otherwise doesn't
make it so.

IMHO, the problematic issues you cite (along with numerous others) are all
the more reason that MS would do well to work on getting the program back to
what it is supposed to do best and purge the miserable bloat from the app all
together rather than adding to it. Perhaps then they could also concentrate
more resources on fixing the wp features that don't perform as well as they
could (should).

Pardon the analogy, but although one may love their neatly compartmentalized
tote, if they try to make it serve the purpose when it comes time to go on
vacation, they will find that not everything fits, what does get jammed in
will be wrinkled or damaged, and sooner or later it will simply break and
won't even be usable for it's original purpose. That is exactly what has been
happening to Word. The seams are about to burst, as it is, primarily due to
stuff that shouldn't even be there.

Invest $69 in Publisher (or better if you can), import your major copy from
Word, and do your page layout with graphics there. If you do, _every_ problem
to which you refer will cease to exist.

Regards |:>)