Photos in Text Boxes - HELP PLEASE!

[Barbara]

HELP! This is driving me crazy and I haven't been able to
find a solution anywhere. I create documents with 8 photos
on a page (in text boxes) and a very small amount of text.
I set up the page with 8 text boxes but when I insert the
pictures, it doesn't fit the whole picture in and it
changes the dimensions of the text boxes. How do I insert
my pictures without the text box changing where it is and
how do I get it to resize the picture to fit the box? I
could really use some quick help on this.
It seems to work fine when I only put 6 photos up on the
page but there should be room for the 8 text boxes/photos.

Looking forward to hearing a solution to my head banging
problem - Many thanks in advance!
Barbara

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You'd probably find it much more satisfactory to use a table for this
instead of text boxes.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Barbara,


You didn't mention the version of Word you're
using, but when you add the text box select it and use
Format=>Textbox uncheck the boxes in the 'Textbox' tab.
Word will use the *width* setting of your textbox and
the proportions of the graphic.

As Suzanne mentioned using a table may be helpful to
you as you can set 'exact' row heights in the table
properties, but that will crop the view of your graphic
when inserted from file with 'in line with text' wrapping
if you're using Word 2002.


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HELP! This is driving me crazy and I haven't been able to
find a solution anywhere. I create documents with 8 photos
on a page (in text boxes) and a very small amount of text.
I set up the page with 8 text boxes but when I insert the
pictures, it doesn't fit the whole picture in and it
changes the dimensions of the text boxes. How do I insert
my pictures without the text box changing where it is and
how do I get it to resize the picture to fit the box? I
could really use some quick help on this.
It seems to work fine when I only put 6 photos up on the
page but there should be room for the 8 text boxes/photos.

Looking forward to hearing a solution to my head banging
problem - Many thanks in advance!
Barbara >>
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Hope that helps,

Bob Buckland ? MS Word/Office MVP
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