SAVE AS .MHT, the order of CALLOUTS changes.

[Todd Burch]

I have a Word 2003 doc that looks great. I have inserted several callouts
that point to sections of technical data that I want to emphasize. In Word,
the callout leaders are "on top" of my (inserted from .txt file) text.
However, when I SAVE AS a .MHT file, the callout leaders are now behind my
(opaque) text, and their use is now pointless.

I made sure to ORDER>Bring to Front all my callouts, but to no avail, they
still show up behind the text.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

THANKS! Todd

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Todd,

You may not be doing anything wrong, you may be hitting a limitation of Word document files being converted to web documents and how
web browsers interpret the content and position graphics.

Do you see the same thing in File=>Web Page Preview? If you select the callout and use Format=>Object/Textbox is the wrapping set
to 'in front of text'?

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I have a Word 2003 doc that looks great. I have inserted several callouts
that point to sections of technical data that I want to emphasize. In Word,
the callout leaders are "on top" of my (inserted from .txt file) text.
However, when I SAVE AS a .MHT file, the callout leaders are now behind my
(opaque) text, and their use is now pointless.

I made sure to ORDER>Bring to Front all my callouts, but to no avail, they
still show up behind the text.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

THANKS! Todd >>
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[Todd Burch]

Hi Bob, and thanks for taking the time to respond.

Doing a File>Web Page Preview works GREAT! The callout leaders are on top
of the text. However, when saving as a Web Page (.html), again, the
callouts fall behind the text.

Going into Format>Autoshape>Layout, the callout is marked for "In Front of
Text".

I even tried clearing all formatting for the INSERTed .txt information and
reformatting the text back to the same format, and that did not solve the
problem either.

Todd

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Todd,

There may be some settings in Tools=>Options=>General=>Web Options that are affecting the save to HTML (Word ignores some of them in
File=>Web Page Preview). Can you list the steps to create what you're seeing if you start in a new, blank document?
In the new document you can start with typing
=rand(50,1) {Enter}
to create some sample text to use.

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Hi Bob, and thanks for taking the time to respond.

Doing a File>Web Page Preview works GREAT! The callout leaders are on top
of the text. However, when saving as a Web Page (.html), again, the
callouts fall behind the text.

Going into Format>Autoshape>Layout, the callout is marked for "In Front of
Text".

I even tried clearing all formatting for the INSERTed .txt information and
reformatting the text back to the same format, and that did not solve the
problem either.

Todd >>