[mso] Re: Picture Captions
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:04:31 -0500
Hi Brian ... sorry I wasn't here to help sooner ... blame it on my life.
Anyway ... to make this even more amusing ... after you've got the picture
and canvas inside the canvas, you can drag them back OUT of the canvas and
still group them ... it has to do with the new way Word 2007 handles
graphics and evidently it uses the old way, plus a new type of graphics
engine ... so dragging the pic and caption into the canvas converts them to
the new graphics engine and that sticks even if you drag them back out. Try
it. Insert a canvas, then insert a picture in there, then insert a caption
... then drag both out of the canvas and see you can now use the control key
to select them both and the Group button is no longer grayed out and
Grouping appears in the right click menu.
Like I've been saying all along ... Office 2007 was supposed to make things
easier, but in my opinion it's a failure. Maybe for people who never do
more than type and add an occasional picture, it's easier, but for anyone
who does anything evenly remotely "advanced" in 2007, most of it now
requires way more work and workarounds!
You might want to read this Lockergnome discussion on this ... Cindy
Meister, Word mvp and a guy named BillieKP confirm what I'm telling you
here:
http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Word-2007-group-pictures-shapes-textbox-f
topict916972.html
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Linda F. Johnson
Linda's Computer Stop
http://personal-computer-tutor.com
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Brian Lightfoot
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:34 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Picture Captions
Hang on. I've got the problem solved!!
Wow! This was a mind-blower. It seems that in Word 2007 you cannot just
select multiple objects unless they are on a "drawing canvas".
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