Hi Patricia:
A picture will not go into the Header of a document unless you put it there.
The running header is a different structure, it is not part of the text. In
Word 2008, the division is not easy to see because no line appears.
But unless you click in the header, the picture won't land there, and there
is no way of dragging a picture into the header. So I suspect that your
document does not actually have a header at all, and you are talking about
the "Top of the page".
If you go to View>Header and Footer, then the header will appear and you
will see a prominent blue line appear marking the division with the body
text. You will also find that it is not possible to drag anything from the
body text into the header because you can't select anything in the document
while the header is open (the header is not part of the same structure).
All pictures are anchored to the closest paragraph when you insert them.
If you then change the picture wrapping to "Inline" the picture settles IN
the paragraph it is anchored to. It is important to realise that a
"Document" is made up of paragraphs. Everything in a document is part of,
or attached to, a paragraph.
A Word document is not like a piece of paper: there are no "blank" parts to
keep things apart. EVERYTHING is either in a paragraph, or offset a
measured distance from a paragraph. Nothing can appear before the first
paragraph or after the last paragraph in the document.
Any part of a document that looks "blank" is in fact "empty". There is
nothing there at all. So there is nothing to prop anything on.
If the picture wrapping is anything else, then "rules" apply for where the
picture can be.
A picture that flips to the top of the page is usually indicating that the
anchor is actually on the previous page.
"Square" is a particular problem, because it requires there to be enough
room to run text down either side of the picture. Since the minimum column
width is about 2.5 cm, that means you need five cm free space: so Paper
width - (Left margin + right margin + picture width) must be greater than
five cm.
In Word>Preferences>View, turn on "Object anchors", and on the Standard
toolbar, turn on "Show/Hide" so you can see what you are doing. Then when
you click on a picture, the anchor symbol will appear to show you what it is
anchored to.
You can drag the anchor to a different paragraph or a different page without
moving the picture. It's usually best to get the anchor about the middle of
the page, to allow for movement if the text changes.
Hope this helps.
Yes I do have the current update level.
I know it sounds confusing. I go to "insert-picture-from file" insert the
picture I need. (check it see if it comes in at the body of the text or in the
header - about half of the time it is in the header) Highlight the picture,
change the wrapping to square so I can move the picture or resize it, if
needed. I try to bring in the picture about in the middle/top part of the
page because they usually will be sized to a full page image. If the picture
is in the header then when I try to move it - it will jump to the top of the
page and I can't get it to move from this position.
I hope this explains it more.
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