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Message: [QUOTE="John McGhie, post: 6895514"] "Drag" it, then "Nudge" it. Drag it roughly into position, then nudge it with the cursors to get it exactly where you want it. However, the real issue is one of available machine resources (you're running your computer out of power!). Moving a full-colour image is a huge load on the computer: it has to move every pixel, one dot at a time. Things are getting very busy in there :-) If you want to do a lot of this, add RAM to the computer! 4GB is a nice round number: eight if your computer will hold that much. And stop all of the other applications that are running, while you do this. Not just minimised, quit them. Each application you run uses some memory and some CPU, even if it is sitting in the background doing nothing! If you find things a bit slow, shut the machine down, turn the power off, and wait a couple of minutes (at least 60 seconds). Then bring it back up again. This causes Unix to run its house-keeping tasks, and that can make a big difference to your speed. There's a growing philosophical issue out there... A mate of mine used to complain constantly about how "slow" his iMac was when doing this kind of thing. I discovered that while he worked, he liked to be listening to music on iTunes, and had Internet TV playing a news channel in the background! These are two of the heaviest tasks you can give a computer. I told him to go and buy a Mac Pro. He's a lot happier now :-) Computer manufacturers have created a problem with "unrealistic expectations". By claiming that "everything is faaast" and saying that "everything is a super-computer" they have bred a world full of users who expect this to be true! Well: It's NOT :-) Laptops are a GREAT idea if you want to take your office with you. But really they're for "reading things", and if you want to edit on them, unless you fill them up with memory they're going to be slow. An iMac is a GREAT machine for surfing the Internet, but if you want to do "work" on it, you need to add memory and use one application at a time. If you want to make good-looking, complex, brochures ‹ and do this all day for a living ‹ you need to invest in the computer that was designed for that kind of service: the Mac Pro :-) Cheers -- This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum matters unless you intend to pay! John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer, McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name [/QUOTE]

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