My heart bleeds for you! My solution - user header.

[Timothy Takemoto]

I was just trying to do something simple: a clip art text
at the top of the page for a title. I tried every anchor
setting I could find, and of course turning off
the "anchor to paragraph" (or is it text) setting but
still my boxes jumped around whenever I alter the text.
There should be an achor to page setting that does just
that. The thing should stay there, stay put, stop dead.
But they don't they jump. My dog performs better.

My solution, for the time being, was to put the title
graphic (clip art text box) into the header. This is not
ideal since I will (indeed have) wanted to make a graphic
stay put in the middle of the page. But as a seperate area
that is not affected by changes to the text, the header is
useful.

I wonder if "overlapping" headers and footers are
possible. If so then I would have three independent fields
to play with.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Timothy,

Hmmm, are you saying your dog doesn't jump
on request, but Word graphics do or that Word
just doesn't like the 'stay' command

Having an 'anchor here' choice in Word
has been on the top of my wish list for
several versions, but I don't get any matching
numbers on my Lotto tickets either, but I
keep hoping.

Anchoring the graphic to a header footer is
one way to get it to be less dependent on
the changing of text within the Word document.

Can you overlap a header and footer, yes, although
it may not be helpful to you. In File=>Page Setup
you can, for example, set the distance from edge
for the footer and header to 7". You can have
graphics anchored to either a header or footer
and have it anywhere on the 'page'. If it's the
only content in the header footer then double clicking
the 'normal' header/footer areas won't reopen those
but 2clicking over the graphics in that area may
put the user into the header footer.

If you're looking for having multiple sets of
headers and footers in a single Word page, similar
to WordPerfect's 'A' and 'B' choices it's not directly
supported in Word.

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I was just trying to do something simple: a clip art text
at the top of the page for a title. I tried every anchor
setting I could find, and of course turning off
the "anchor to paragraph" (or is it text) setting but
still my boxes jumped around whenever I alter the text.
There should be an achor to page setting that does just
that. The thing should stay there, stay put, stop dead.
But they don't they jump. My dog performs better.

My solution, for the time being, was to put the title
graphic (clip art text box) into the header. This is not
ideal since I will (indeed have) wanted to make a graphic
stay put in the middle of the page. But as a seperate area
that is not affected by changes to the text, the header is
useful.

I wonder if "overlapping" headers and footers are
possible. If so then I would have three independent fields
to play with.>>
--
Hope that helps,

Bob Buckland ? MS Office Products family MVP
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you change the wrapping on your header graphic to anything other than In
Line with Text, you can put it anywhere on the page.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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