Understanding images: part 4 - stay in position

Sometimes, especially when you try to create a 1-page flyer, you want to position a figure at a particular location on the page and make sure that it stays put.  One possibility is the position in the menu on the Ribbon format use to align your figure with one of the nine common positions on the page:

To position select one of the options in the section with text wrapping to your figure will do three things:

Go you your character from inline to floatingApply square text wrappingPosition the picture relative to the edge of the document

The third item in the list is the key (and what does this menu different menu wrap text ).  To understand what it means, we go back to my previous post when I said that the relationship between a character and its anchor.

In this post, I mentioned that the picture will move if the text, the, which it is attached, moved.   This is because, by default a character relative to the text is positioned where it is anchored.  In most cases because it tends to a relationship between the text and the illustration, this is exactly what to do.

We see an example of us.  The following document I added a picture to go along with the family magazine I write.  The image is related to paragraph, where you can see the anchor icon:

When I later add a different paragraph (the blue text), which pushes the text and the anchor to the next page, the image on the next page moves.  Once said there, the same position relative to the location of the anchor - in this case over an inch after down from the top of the paragraph:

If a character is position relative to the edges, what happens if you use the location menu, are not on the page move as the anchor moves.  But when the anchor to the next page pushed the figure still jumps to the next page (see rule # 1 in the last post).  In this case, the figure in the same relative position on the next page remains.

Again the example when the image originally relative to the edge on the first page, positions were above, when I insert the blue text and press the figure in a two page-the result would look like this:

Note that the image keeps its relative position on the page in the lower right corner, if it is moved to the next page.

If you see exactly how your figure is positioned and whether it moves with the text laid down or will remain in a fixed position on the page, you can look at the Advanced Layout dialog box.  Select more layout optionsmenu at the bottom of the position .  On the tab position in the dialog, you see several options to align an image vertically and horizontally.  At the bottom of the dialog box is called an option to move with text.  Try selecting and clearing, the option and see how the settings above to change this behavior to enable.

--Theresa Estrada is a program manager on the word team, which most of their days (and some nights) study, spends as user numbers to work in their documents.

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