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

Yeah, tables are not great for handling transfers. I only use lots of tables
when print is the preferred medium. Outside that, best to use paragraph
styles, character styles and not much else.

Regards;
Warren

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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Martin
Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 21:39
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: 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
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