Hi Schazza
In Word 2007 you are no longer able to group Autoshapes with Objects, and Pictures are objects if you're working in 'regular' Word
2007 'mode'. You can do it with a couple of work around.
Microsoft Office 2007 introduced a new graphics engine, the MS Office Art, engine (or Escher v2). It is what Excel and Powerpoint
use, pretty much throughout, but Word uses parts of Escher2 and still uses, for backwards compatibility the Office
Graphics/Drawing/Interface engine (Escher v1).
Inserted Pictures, either individually or multi selected/groups are handled internally as
'Microsoft Office[2007] Graphic Objects' [Escher 2] while
autoshapes are
'MS Office[legacy] Drawing Objects' 'Escher 1]'
The two types don't mix and they can't be grouped together.
However, you can create a Word 2003 'island' within a Word 2007 page by using
Insert Tab=>Shape=>New Drawing Canvas
Items inserted into the canvas have the same Word 2003 'abilities' to tie together so you can keep your items together in a canvas,
or if you drag a picture out of a canvas into a document it should keep its 2003 properties (blue sizing handles rather than 2007's
white pearl ones).
Note that if you insert the Same picture into a document
Insert=>Picture
then use
Insert=>Shapes=>New Drawing Canvas
and then 'Insert=>Picture'
into the canvas and drag it off to be next to the first picture that the Ribbon choices under 'Picture Tools=>Format' are different.
One reflects the Word 2007 tools, the other the Word 2003 tools.
Rather than use the drawing canvas you can also use
Office Button=>Save As
and save as a Word 97-2003 document type while you work on the graphic and then use
Office Button=>Convert
(a menu choice that only appears when it's an old style Word document) to restore the ability to use the Word 2007 (Escher 2)
graphics modelling features such as picture styles.
Note that this can, however, impact other Word 2007 features that you may have in your document.
I added te New Drawing Canvas choice to my Quick Access toolbar to be able to use the canvas then delete it after pulling in the
content I want
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Is ther a way that i can group a picture to my shapes and text boxes in word
2007. In previouse versions it was very easy but with 2007 i can not figure
it out. I have magaged to group text boxes with shapes but i can not get my
picture selected to include it in the grouping
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