No way to lock free floating graphics down?

[how_D]

Within Word I am trying to use three colored rectangles as background images
that text and charts float over. I have used the function to send the
images to the background. They are horizontal, and they are sized so that
they will occupy the full area of the page between the header and footer.

I have placed them so that they make a stack, butting up precisely to each
other, with no white space in between them.

The problem is that when I make changes to the text or graphics (which
floats above the unlinked boxes), the boxes move. If I add a carriage return
into the text, the box beneath that area of the page moves down in sympathy.

Is there no way to lock these things down?????

Bill

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi

From Word's Tools menu choose Customize.

Click on the Commands Tab. On the right hand side look for InsertFrame then
drag that command to a toolbar. Click OK to close the Customize box.

Then select a rectangle (single click it). While the rectangle is selected
click the button you added. Then you can position the rectangle anywhere.
You can use the Wrapping feature on Word's formatting palette as usual.

-Jim Gordon
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[Tim Murray]

Be aware, however, that even a "locked" graphic can move a bit. I've even
seen graphics shift as the pointer passes over them and then snap back when
the pointer passed.