Pictures moving around in Word 2003 SP2

[RasVed]

Hi.

I'm working with some texts where I should add pictures in Word.

But:
1. I often experience, that the pictures jump around from page to page,
or align at the very bottom or top of the page. Sometimes it helps to
align according to page, instead of paragraph/column, but even though I
set a specific location on a page - and related to page - the pictures
sometimes move around anyway. Any good explanation or solutions?

2. How do I set default to align according to page instead of
paragraph/column? I have tried several times to right-click and choose
"Set AutoShape Defaults", but no matter what I do, new pictures,
(picture)captions etc always shows up as in line with text, which for
me is completely useless, since my pictures are taller than my
letters... Any suggestions here?

3. Imagine a text with some long lines (from one margin to another). I
insert a pictures which shortens some of these lines (after having set
it to have square text-wrapping, and moved it to align with the right
margin - which should be default for all new pictures for me - se Q2
). Depending on the exact location on this picture, the line
spacing extends for one line next to the picture or caption. How can I
avoid that?

Thanks in advance,

-Ras

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi RasVed,

1. I often experience, that the pictures jump around from page to page,
or align at the very bottom or top of the page. Sometimes it helps to
align according to page, instead of paragraph/column, but even though I
set a specific location on a page - and related to page - the pictures
sometimes move around anyway. Any good explanation or solutions?

A picture is always anchored to a paragraph, and will always appear on
the same page as that paragraph. That could explain "jump around from
page to page".

You don't specify what is meant by "jump around", whether it's vertical
or horizontal. But you do need to be careful to set both directions
relative to the page to prevent pictures from moving sideways if they've
been anchored to text characters.

2. How do I set default to align according to page instead of
paragraph/column? I have tried several times to right-click and choose
"Set AutoShape Defaults", but no matter what I do, new pictures,
(picture)captions etc always shows up as in line with text, which for
me is completely useless, since my pictures are taller than my
letters... Any suggestions here?

alignment default can't be done. you'd have to use a macro to
insert+format, or run a macro on the inserted picture.

AutoShapes are only the things you draw using the Drawing toolbar.

In Word 2002/2003 you can set the text flow formatting default in
Tools/options/Edit.

3. Imagine a text with some long lines (from one margin to another). I
insert a pictures which shortens some of these lines (after having set
it to have square text-wrapping, and moved it to align with the right
margin - which should be default for all new pictures for me - se Q2
). Depending on the exact location on this picture, the line
spacing extends for one line next to the picture or caption. How can I
avoid that?

If I'm following correctly, you need to check the distance from picture
to text. But sometimes there's just nothing much you can do about how
Word interprets textflow.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Office-user]

alignment default can't be done. you'd have to use a macro to

insert+format, or run a macro on the inserted picture.

Ok. Thanks

In Word 2002/2003 you can set the text flow formatting default in
Tools/options/Edit.

Will try...

If I'm following correctly, you need to check the distance from picture
to text. But sometimes there's just nothing much you can do about how
Word interprets textflow.

You aren't following me right, then..
It's not the distance to the text, it's the linespacing for the text
right next to the pictures. If I move the pictures a few pixels higher,
et apears as if I have an extra line-space between some lines in the
text. If I move the picture back a few pixels, the text seems fine
again.

I have sent you two pictures explaining it better than words..

Still looking for good explanations and workarounds for this..

Maybe I should just face the fact, that Word is a wordprocessor - not a
layout program, and hence rarely usable for me to larger documents..
:-(

-R