infinite pagination

[icreate]

Please help. I am working on a book/college paper and have photographs
in the document. I am using small documents instead of one large one,
because of this problem. When trying to move photographs and sometimes
copy the program will start infinite pagination. I figure it has
something to do with the anchors. I have tried to turn off the anchor,
by going into Advanced layout /picture position and unchecking lock
anchor, also unchecking move object with text. I also have had some
success, sometimes with going into view/normal and taking out anything
extra in this area, however then when going back to page view it
sometimes starts that infinite pagination again.

I am on a mac OS X 10.3.4 Using microsoft word 2004 for mac version
11.1
This problem is infuriating and help would be appreciated.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Bridgette -

What you are finding is that Word is a word processing program, _not_ page
layout/desktop publishing software. Specifically, it has no concept of
'pages' as we think of them. Pages are only a means of conveying to the
viewer a tangible concept of how the text & other content will appear on
paper. That is why graphic objects cannot be positioned absolutely on a
'page'...there is no page to position them on. Understandably, the Advanced
layout dialog gives a different impression.

Therefore, graphics are 'anchored' to the text in the document. If the
graphic has no text wrap applied it is an In Line graphic and anchored to a
position in a line of text, just as a character would be. When you apply
text wrap the graphic becomes free-floating and can be dragged to wherever
you wish, but it is still anchored to a paragraph so Word will know where it
is to be printed. That's why the settings changes you made to the anchoring
haven't the effect you'd expect.

Un-checking 'Lock Anchor' simply means that the anchor, itself, can be
dragged in order to anchor the image to a different paragraph. 'Move object
with text' only determines whether the image will shift as the text around
it re-flows. Either way, if the paragraph the graphic is anchored to flows
to a different 'page' the image will go with it, as its position is a part
of & determined by the text flow.

If you need precise (and predictable) graphic positioning you would be
better off with a page layout program that allows for placement of text &
graphics... Especially in longer documents with a number of graphic objects.
Should Word be your only option, however, you might want to try inserting
the images into Frames or Tables which may give the necessary degree of
control.

HTH |:>)

 

[Aaron Shepard]

It's probably not the best idea to divide up the document in that
particular manner. You'd probably do better to keep all text in one
file and link to the graphics instead of embedding them. That's the
other and more reliable way to keep your file size down. One of the big
advantages of Word is that it can accommodate hundreds of pages of text
in a single file.

Aaron

 

[Tim Murray]

Please help. I am working on a book/college paper and have photographs
in the document. I am using small documents instead of one large one,
because of this problem. When trying to move photographs and sometimes
copy the program will start infinite pagination. I figure it has
something to do with the anchors. I have tried to turn off the anchor,
by going into Advanced layout /picture position and unchecking lock
anchor, also unchecking move object with text. I also have had some
success, sometimes with going into view/normal and taking out anything
extra in this area, however then when going back to page view it
sometimes starts that infinite pagination again.

I am on a mac OS X 10.3.4 Using microsoft word 2004 for mac version 11.1
This problem is infuriating and help would be appreciated.

One trigger I have seen for infinite repagination is the presence of a
graphic in a footer. (Just so happens I've never seen the problem with a
graphic in a header.)