Stop those flying photos!

[Jim]

Speaking of flying, I'm about ready to send Ms. Barnhill a ticket to come and
show me what to do. This is exasperating.

I'm working on an instruction manual that utilizes a 2-column table for
side-to-side display of main points and their detailed explanations. But the
second paragraph of any of these points is not necessarily in the table
format. I created a paragraph style that simply indents the non-table
paragraph so it looks like the one in the table that immediately preceded it.
(This was mainly to have widow and orphan control, which does not work in
tables.)

This all works well, and I've been doing it for years now, but have one heck
of a time inserting photos in the document. This is something that is needed
more and more. Some photos will be inside the right-hand table column, some
of them not. Trouble is, I pull a photo in and it sometimes flies off the
page completely. Then I have to go find it, maybe on the next page or a
couple back, drag it back, and continue to fight to get it to stay put where
I want it.

Is there some sort of tutorial for: Format Picture/Layout, telling just what
Lock anchor, Move object with text, Allow overlap and Layout in table cell
really mean? I can usually get the photo to stay put by turning these
various options on or off, but the final settings don't always agree with
what I intended or, indeed, what is happening. I need a class! Many thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you can work out a way to insert the photos as In Line With Text, then
they won't fly because they'll be in ordinary text paragraphs. If you're
putting the photos in table cells, then that's absolutely the only sensible
thing to do unless you're actually trying to wrap text *around* them (if you
just need text beside or above or below them, then this can be handled with
ordinary table cells).

I hope Bob Buckland or someone else knowledgeable will come along, though,
and explain all those terms that apply to wrapped graphics because I don't
understand them, either!

 

[Jim]

Many thanks, Suzanne;

Yes, I like to put them inline when I can, but when I need text to the left
(generally) of the photo, it's nice to just have it 'hang' there, not in a
table cell, to keep the text flowing properly from one page to the next, etc.
As I said, I can usually tame the beast with the proper selection of those
checked options under Format Picture/Layout/Advanced, but have no idea what
those boxes do, as they do not seem to behave per their names. Good to hear
I'm not alone!

Have a good day and please continue to provide this great help!