screen jumps to upper left corner while working with shapes in lower right

[Greg]

Hello.
Using Word 2002 on Windows XP.

While working with autoshapes in the lower right corner of my document, the
screen will jump to the upper left corner (where the flashing cursor is)
when I click off of the autoshape to make the little circles surrounding the
autoshape disappear. Any suggestions to make this stop happening?
-Greg

 

[PJ Lightning]

Irritating isn't it. I work a great deal with graphisc in
word, often zoomed in close and I have only found one
found a way to prevent it leaping to another view whenever
you click away to deselect something or just click on
something large which goes off screen, which is to
completely fill your sheet with spaces or text so that
when you click away from the object your click falls on a
space and stays there.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Greg,

Using Word 2002 on Windows XP.

While working with autoshapes in the lower right corner of my document, the
screen will jump to the upper left corner (where the flashing cursor is)
when I click off of the autoshape to make the little circles surrounding the
autoshape disappear.

If you double-click the "select arrow" in the drawing toolbar (at the far
left), that will "lock" you into Drawing Mode so that the focus won't keep
returning to the insertion point in the document text.

To get out of that mode, click the button again or press ESC

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[PJ Lightning]

Hi Cindy,
I've got Word 2002 on xp, and double clicking on the
select arrow has no affect whatsover. Is there a setting
somewhere that has to be changed to allow that to work?
Joan

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi PJ,

I've got Word 2002 on xp, and double clicking on the
select arrow has no affect whatsover.

Ooops, my bad. Try a single click.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[PJ Lightning]

Hi Cindy,
That's what I've been doing all along, but if you miss the
drawing you're trying to click onto (easily done when
working with fine lines), the screen jumps to the top left
hand corner; a real nuisance when working at 500x anywhere
else on the page.
Joan

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That's because you evidently have all your drawing objects anchored to a
single (empty) text paragraph at the top left corner. You might try
inserting several more paragraphs spaced down the page (using Space Before
to spread them out) and anchoring your drawings to them.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi PJ,

That's what I've been doing all along, but if you miss the
drawing you're trying to click onto (easily done when
working with fine lines), the screen jumps to the top left
hand corner;

Looks like they've changed this behavior in Word 2003 - I
don't see it, there.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[PJ Lightning]

Hi Cindy,
I'm working with imported emf files which often contain
100 or more (sometimes lots more)drawing objects, changing
the anchors on all of them would be a little time
consuming even if I knew how to do it. The only other
thing that seems to work is filling the page with spaces
which is not a very elegant solution.
Joan

 

[PJL]

whoops, got muddled over who wrote what! My last post
should have been addressed to Suzanne.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you grouped the objects before moving the anchor (which you do by just
dragging it), this would simplify the task. But it strikes me that perhaps
Word is not the ideal application for what you're trying to do.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[PJ Lightning]

You might be surprised what you can do in Word if you push
it to its limits, which I do constantly. The reason we use
Word for such complicated figures is so that the managers
can open, amend (tho they usually regret trying that), and
most important, print the figures from their own computers
without having to pay out for lots of expensive licences
for proper publishing software. Word is very versatile
with just a few annoying habits which generally I can work
round (such as a problem with text boxes in very complex
drawings). The jumping around is the most frustrating.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Publisher is much cheaper than Word, and many people consider it easier to
use. <g>

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[John]

You could try using the (dare I say it) Drawing Canvas (available from Word
2002 onwards). I find that your problem doesn't happen if you do. Other
problems go away too, like objects no longer aligning with the grid if you
add or delete text before your drawing objects that make these objects move
downwards or upwards.

People often complain on this forum about how annoying the Drawing Canvass,
but I like it. OK, I admit I've set my options so that it is off by default,
so that it doesn't appear as soon as I add a drawing object to my document.
But if you have turned it off, it's easy to turn back on again by Chooing
Insert > Picture > New Drawing.