Selecting and moving multiple frames

[RealGomer]

We use an application that uses Crystal Reports to export data as frames into
Word. Each frame has the data and label in it. Unfortunately, the app doesn't
have an option to keep data together as Access does, so it "prints" data from
multipe record sets on a single page. By that I mean if the record set is
"Group A" and there's only one record for a particulare page, the app will
put as many records from record set "Group B" onto the same page. Crystal is
integrated into the app so I have no way of changing the formatting.
So, is there a way to select multiple frames at once to move them?
Shift-Left Click and Control-Left CLick don't work.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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We use an application that uses Crystal Reports to export data as frames into
Word. Each frame has the data and label in it. Unfortunately, the app doesn't
have an option to keep data together as Access does, so it "prints" data from
multipe record sets on a single page. By that I mean if the record set is
"Group A" and there's only one record for a particulare page, the app will
put as many records from record set "Group B" onto the same page. Crystal is
integrated into the app so I have no way of changing the formatting.
So, is there a way to select multiple frames at once to move them?

No, there is not. Frames pre-date "modern" text boxes and, while they appear to
be the same kind of thing, they aren't. Frames lack many things we've learned to
expect from "graphics", including being able to select more than one
simultaneously.

However - and I don't know whether this will help you - frames do have anchors
that associate them with particular paragraphs. If the Crystal Reports result
has inserted a paragraph mark for each frame, and anchored the frames that way
(rather than all to the same paragraph mark), you should be able to click in the
paragraph mark for frame starting "Group B"), then press Ctrl+Enter to force it
to the next page.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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