Moving a line with text (does not work as expected)

[Sean 3DD]

To start, I'm running Word 2003 sp1 on XP OS.

I have positioned a line (graphic line) below a line of text, selected the
format autoshape option, selected 'In front of text' wrapping style, gone to
Advanced... and then 'checked' 'absolute position in both horizontal and
vertical' and also ' 'move object with text'

Put simply, it doesn't work!

I've checked the proceedure on another machine running Word 2000, it works
in the way I describe above.

Any ideas? It should really be quite simple -

One other observation, on selecting a position to create a graphic line, I
get the 'Put your drawing here' box, dont want it dont need it, can I prevent
it from happening?

regards

Sean3DD

 

[Greg]

For the second part,

Tools>Options>General and uncheck Automatically create drawing canvass
when inserting autoshapes.

For the first part, is sounds like that your graphic is not anchored to
the text.

 

[Sean 3DD]

Many thanks for the second part. On the first part though, the graphic is
anchored, however I have discovered that the resultant graphic movement is
only apparent if I change the 'zoom' factor i.e. 'redraw' the screen. So it
does work, although I have no idea why it waits for a redraw for the visual
effect to be seen!

once again thanks for your efforts

Sean3DD