Make a picture full page and have text go around.

[StephenSarkozy]

Hi,

I am using Word 2007 on Vista ultimate.

I was wondering how to make an image which is nearly a full page (with its
caption), set to that page and have text go from the page before it to the
page directly after. i.e.
if we start with:

The dog ran up the hill.
------ (page end)
picture
------(page end)
And found his bone.

And then type more before hand:

The brown dog ran up the steep
----(page end)
picture
----(page end)
hill. And found his bone.

Currently, any random assortment of horrible things happen to my picture.

Thanks!

Sorry if this was written in a confusing way,
Steve.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word cannot put a wrapped object by itself on a page. You have two choices:
you can insert the image In Line With Text, or you can insert it wrapped but
anchored to an inline paragraph. Either one is going to interrupt the flow
of text from the previous page to the next page. So the only way to achieve
the effect you want is to fake it. For this purpose it's best to wait until
editing is complete before attempting to place full-page graphics. Then do
the following:

1. Press Enter at the end of the last line of text on the page before where
you want the graphic.

2. Insert the graphic on the next page, in its own paragraph (press Enter to
insert the empty paragraph, then insert the graphic in it).

3. The text will continue on the next page.

If you can maneuver it so that the previous page coincides with the end of a
paragraph, this is ideal; if not, you have to split the paragraph. There are
two "gotchas" that can arise here:

1. If the paragraph is justified, you'll need to insert a line break at the
end of the last preceding line to justify it. Format the new last line
(which will be just a paragraph mark) as 1 point or (if that doesn't
suffice) Hidden.

2. If the paragraph has a first-line indent, you'll need to remove the
indent from the first paragraph on the following page. The preferred way to
do this is to apply an unindented style (I use Body Text and Body Text First
Indent for these purposes).

 

[StephenSarkozy]

I was afraid of something like this. Anyway, thank you for the quick reply,
and for the fixes to make it look proper.