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While attempting to create two pretty figures which would sit side-by-side at
the top of a page, I ran into what I believe to be a bug in the layout of
"drawing" objects situated inside "wrapped" tables.
To observe this phenomena, follow these actions using Word 2003
(11.6568.6568) SP2:
1. Create a new document
2. Add a few paragraphs of garbage text such that the cursor is approx 5
lines away from top page margin.
3. Create a new "drawing" object: "Insert > Picture > New Drawing".
4. Add some basic AutoShapes to the drawing (e.g. a smiley face).
5. Make the drawing "fit" the contained autoshapes. (note that with only a
single autoshape, the "Fit" button is not available for some peculiar reason.
another bug?)
6. Make the drawing "In Line With Text".
7. Copy the whole drawing object (not the autoshapes it contains!) so you
have two drawing objects with identical autoshapes inside each.
8. Create a table with a single row and two columns.
9. Drag-and-drop each drawing object to a cell in the table.
10. Open the table's properties dialog and select "Text wrapping > Around".
11. In the table's properties dialog open the "Positioning..." dialog and
select "Horizontal > Position > Center", "Horizontal > Relative to > Margin",
and "Vertical > Position > Top", "Vertical > Relative to > Margin".
You should now see the table sitting at the top of the page (top of table
aligned flush with top margin), and the drawing objects floating down the
page where you originally dragged them into the table. Oops.
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the top of a page, I ran into what I believe to be a bug in the layout of
"drawing" objects situated inside "wrapped" tables.
To observe this phenomena, follow these actions using Word 2003
(11.6568.6568) SP2:
1. Create a new document
2. Add a few paragraphs of garbage text such that the cursor is approx 5
lines away from top page margin.
3. Create a new "drawing" object: "Insert > Picture > New Drawing".
4. Add some basic AutoShapes to the drawing (e.g. a smiley face).
5. Make the drawing "fit" the contained autoshapes. (note that with only a
single autoshape, the "Fit" button is not available for some peculiar reason.
another bug?)
6. Make the drawing "In Line With Text".
7. Copy the whole drawing object (not the autoshapes it contains!) so you
have two drawing objects with identical autoshapes inside each.
8. Create a table with a single row and two columns.
9. Drag-and-drop each drawing object to a cell in the table.
10. Open the table's properties dialog and select "Text wrapping > Around".
11. In the table's properties dialog open the "Positioning..." dialog and
select "Horizontal > Position > Center", "Horizontal > Relative to > Margin",
and "Vertical > Position > Top", "Vertical > Relative to > Margin".
You should now see the table sitting at the top of the page (top of table
aligned flush with top margin), and the drawing objects floating down the
page where you originally dragged them into the table. Oops.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...7&dg=microsoft.public.word.application.errors