Can I permanently change graphic properties?

[juicyfruit8605]

I am creating a document of 25 pages with 2-3 pictures per page. I know that
in order to move the pictures that I must right click on the picture>Format
Picture>Layout Tab>In front of Text, then Advanced button>Picture
Position>uncheck Move object with text. As you can understand, this gets
quite tedious after repeating this ten or so times. I am currently using
Microsoft Office Word 2003. On one of my older versions (I'm talking about
10 years ago) I was about to keep this setting permanently so that I don't
have to go through that on each picture. Does anyone know if there is a way
to keep this permanently on Word 2003? Any suggestions to cut down on the
work would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?anVpY3lmcnVpdDg2MDU=?=,

I am creating a document of 25 pages with 2-3 pictures per page. I know that
in order to move the pictures that I must right click on the picture>Format
Picture>Layout Tab>In front of Text, then Advanced button>Picture
Position>uncheck Move object with text. As you can understand, this gets
quite tedious after repeating this ten or so times. I am currently using
Microsoft Office Word 2003. On one of my older versions (I'm talking about
10 years ago) I was about to keep this setting permanently so that I don't
have to go through that on each picture. Does anyone know if there is a way
to keep this permanently on Word 2003?

In tools/Options/Edit you should be able to specify that all new graphics be
inserted "in front of text".

You can record a macro while removing the "Move with text" setting. After you've
stopped the macro recorder, you'll want to go into the VBA Editor (Alt+F11) and
remove all the code lines that pertain to other settings. (You want the
RelativeHorizontalPosition, the RelativeVerticalPosition and possible the Left
and Top settings that follow these lines.)

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

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