slippery pics

[astrostan]

Word2007: Does anyone know how to fix the centre of a pasted object (a bitmap
image say) to a particular x,y co-ordinate on a particular page. I'd like to
be able to paste three or four such objects to a page and write around them
and know they will stay put, come what may but can't find out how to do that.
One can emplace such objects to general locations on a page but just add a
word or two and they can easily slide off to the same place on the next (or
even previous!) page, messing up in seconds the whole document that's taken
hours to create!

 

[Bob I]

Try r-clicking on the picture and select Text Wrapping.

 

[astrostan]

I've used text wrapping and arrange objects. Neither of them enable you to
fix an image to a particular place on a particular page. If, for example you
'arrange' a pic to be bottom left and wrap text around it and then later made
even a tiny mod to the page above that pic can easily slide to bottom left on
the next page, messing up everything. Similar comments apply to text boxes.
How do you stick those to an image so the two stay together? Word does an
enormous number of very complex things that are rarely required but many
useful simple things are either impossible or the 'how to' is impossible to
find.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

You do it in Publisher.

 

[astrostan]

The trouble is though, JoAnn, the file size goes up simply enormously. A 5
page with images Word doc may be 500KB, do that almost identically in
Publisher and it may be 30Mb. AOL has an attachment limit of 12Mb and I have
hundreds of these docs............So, you will say, ' change your ISP' well I
will eventually! Are you in fact saying that this is impossible in Word 2007
in any version? At least if that's the case I can stop worrying about it and
use a different application!

You do it in Publisher.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I've used text wrapping and arrange objects. Neither of them enable you to
fix an image to a particular place on a particular page. If, for example
you
'arrange' a pic to be bottom left and wrap text around it and then later
made
even a tiny mod to the page above that pic can easily slide to bottom left
on
the next page, messing up everything. Similar comments apply to text
boxes.
How do you stick those to an image so the two stay together? Word does an
enormous number of very complex things that are rarely required but many
useful simple things are either impossible or the 'how to' is impossible
to
find.

 

[astrostan]

I've since found you can do it, sort of. On my W2007 the advanced picture
positioning facility is greyed out but you can use it with text boxes and put
the text box anywhere by number or dragging. You can paste an image into the
text box (at least a small bitmap you can) and then it will all move around.
If you make the border white you can't see the text box. You can also put
text into the text box alongside the image and then it can't escape!

You do it in Publisher.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I've used text wrapping and arrange objects. Neither of them enable you to
fix an image to a particular place on a particular page. If, for example
you
'arrange' a pic to be bottom left and wrap text around it and then later
made
even a tiny mod to the page above that pic can easily slide to bottom left
on
the next page, messing up everything. Similar comments apply to text
boxes.
How do you stick those to an image so the two stay together? Word does an
enormous number of very complex things that are rarely required but many
useful simple things are either impossible or the 'how to' is impossible
to
find.

 

[Mary Sauer]

What version Publisher are you using? What extension and resolution are the
images? Publisher does not create 30MB files if you are using 2003 or 07.

--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

The trouble is though, JoAnn, the file size goes up simply enormously. A 5
page with images Word doc may be 500KB, do that almost identically in
Publisher and it may be 30Mb. AOL has an attachment limit of 12Mb and I have
hundreds of these docs............So, you will say, ' change your ISP' well I
will eventually! Are you in fact saying that this is impossible in Word 2007
in any version? At least if that's the case I can stop worrying about it and
use a different application!

You do it in Publisher.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I've used text wrapping and arrange objects. Neither of them enable you to
fix an image to a particular place on a particular page. If, for example
you
'arrange' a pic to be bottom left and wrap text around it and then later
made
even a tiny mod to the page above that pic can easily slide to bottom left
on
the next page, messing up everything. Similar comments apply to text
boxes.
How do you stick those to an image so the two stay together? Word does an
enormous number of very complex things that are rarely required but many
useful simple things are either impossible or the 'how to' is impossible
to
find.

:

Try r-clicking on the picture and select Text Wrapping.

astrostan wrote:

Word2007: Does anyone know how to fix the centre of a pasted object (a
bitmap
image say) to a particular x,y co-ordinate on a particular page. I'd
like to
be able to paste three or four such objects to a page and write around
them
and know they will stay put, come what may but can't find out how to do
that.
One can emplace such objects to general locations on a page but just
add a
word or two and they can easily slide off to the same place on the next
(or
even previous!) page, messing up in seconds the whole document that's
taken
hours to create!