Can't freely move clipart

[Teacher_Becky]

Please help me and my 4th grade students. When inserting clipart it just hugs
either the right/left margin. We'd like to be able to have it be placed
anywhere on the page. We have tried to format the graphic as Square or Tight
(we've setup Square as the default). It also is not on a picture canvas. What
else can we try? Thanks for your help, from all of us!

 

[DB Queen (Not)]

If you create a text box and remove any fill and borders and insert your
picture in there you can move it any where you well want!!! Good luck

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Teach,

I'm assuming you're in Print Layout view?

If you have Word 2003 then the default layout choice
for graphics can be set in Tools=>Options=>Edit
which it sounds like you've done.

In that same tab is 'drag and drop'
also checked>

It sounds like the layout settings for the
graphic are set at 'inline with text'.
It will generally have black sizing handles
on the corner of the graphic rather than white
ones.

When inline with text Word treats a graphic like a big text
character and you can use the Left/Right/Center
settings on the formatting toolbar to move the
text in a paragraph side to side. If the graphic
is in a separate paragraph then those controls will
move just the graphic.

If you double click the graphic or select it and
use Format=>Picture and change to any layout style
other than 'inline' with text Word places an anchor,
rather than the graphic in the text paragraph and
has an unseen anchor line between that anchor and
the graphic and you can slide the graphic around the
page with the mouse. The anchor line can only reach
to the edges of the page it's on. If you move the
graphic beyond the edge of a page to another page the
anchor will be dragged there too.

If you've set the graphic to a layout style other
than inline with text does it have white sizing
handles when it's selected? How was the graphic
inserted into the document.

--
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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Please help me and my 4th grade students. When inserting clipart it just hugs
either the right/left margin. We'd like to be able to have it be placed
anywhere on the page. We have tried to format the graphic as Square or Tight
(we've setup Square as the default). It also is not on a picture canvas. What
else can we try? Thanks for your help, from all of us! >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Teacher_Becky]

Thank you for being so nice. Let me see if I can answer your questions.

-Yes, we're in Print Layout view.
-We have Word 2002.
-The graphic was set to Square layout.
-Drag and Drop is checked.
-I thought we had white resize handles. (Hence my confusion about why I
could not move this graphic. I actually went in and double-checked to be sure
it wasn't "inline". We've had so much grief with the "inline" option it's
been changed on all the computers to default to "Square".)
-I did not ask the student how they inserted the clipart. I've taught them
double-clicking or drag and drop. But I will ask this question in the future.
Is there something additional that I should be aware of here?

HOWEVER, I did not know you could just double-click the graphic to get to
the format menu. I've just taught right-click, Format Picture. So THAT makes
my day. Anything easy and short is my goal with 25+ students at a time!

I don't know if I really have an answer to my question, but thank you for
your time and very instructional reply. -becky

 

[LovingMrLincoln]

Dear Teacher: I'm having the same problem. Did you ever figure out how to fix
it?