atw: Re: Word - Better to insert graphics into single-cell tables?

LIVERANI Petra:
You wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I often find jumping-around type problems with graphics in Word.  Using the 
> Confluence
> wiki where graphics really jump around and coping with it by always putting 
> graphics
> into single-cell tables in the wiki I thought I'd do the same in Word. It 
> seems to
> eliminate any problems but I wonder if anyone has thoughts for or against for 
> doing
> this.
>

Not sure what's happened with 2007, but the old (and for me, reliable) 
alternative was to
Insert/Text Box  (once sometime back, was a Frame or somesuch) ... whereupon 
the Word 2003
screen displays a message saying "Create your drawing  here" which seems like a 
straight-forward
invitation to me.

Two things to add to this...

a.) I have a vague memory from dim dark past that you could somehow and for 
some reason, convert
the text box to a frame... which probably had some advantages relating to text 
flow around a frame etc etc...
(or may not have)

b.)  It always seemed advisable to lay down something like 3 consecutive empty 
para marks and then insert
the text box with the cursor on the middle para mark....  because it got 
strangely and complicatedly difficult
to move into paras below the text block if you didn't have the following par 
already in place....   Does that sound
right ?

(Working from vague memories here...  and just a tad of perfunctory 
(late-night) testing...

 And amongst the reasons NOT to use a table...

Tables are seldom handled well in format conversions, give all kinds of parsing 
problems, and well, weren't really
designed for that purpose, anyway....    and you have to be confident of your 
anchor point with a table ... ...etc...



-Peter M
 peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 
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