Locking an Anchor

[JeffreyBee]

Word 2003

I have tried to read as much as possible about anchoring and locking an
anchor to a graphic but the concept and its practical application seems to
elude me.

I guess I am trying to understand when and why I would lock an anchor. It
seems that a locked anchor is still subject to movement if Move with text is
selected or not selected.

Thanks for any light you can shine on this old brain.

 

[Jay Freedman]

The only effect of Lock Anchor is to prevent you from accidentally
dragging the anchor from one paragraph to another. It has nothing to
do with Move With Text.

In a nutshell: Every floating graphic has an anchor that attaches it
to a particular paragraph of body text (which may be just a paragraph
mark). The graphic must always be on the same page as its anchor, so
if that paragraph moves to another page, the graphic also moves to the
other page.

If Move With Text is turned on, then as the anchor paragraph moves up
or down (on the same page), the graphic moves by the same amount. If
Move With Text is turned off, the graphic stays in the same place as
the text moves up and down -- unless the text goes to another page, in
which case the graphic also moves.

If Lock Anchor is turned off, you can grab the anchor icon in the
margin and drag it to a different paragraph. If it's turned on, you
can't drag the anchor icon.

What most people are looking for is a way to nail the graphic to a
particular place on a specific page, neither knowing nor caring about
the anchor. Word can't do that. You can set the position relative to
the page or the margins, rather than the anchor, but you can't keep it
on the same page if the anchor paragraph moves.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[CyberTaz]

In addition to Jay's explanation you may find the following useful:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/PagesInWord.html