Locking a picture or text box in a specific position
Steve
to make a template for use by other people and can't figure out how to
lock a graphic in a specific position so it cannot be moved by another
user.
Basically, I'm making a letterhead with the company logo on the top
centered and the address on the bottom centered. No matter what I do
the logo and the address can be moved. There must be a way to lock it
in position.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Steve
Daiya Mitchell
in the header and footer, people will have to deliberately go into the
header/footer and change it. It won't get in the way as they create a letter
and type along. Most people find this sufficient--that's how it's commonly
done.
You'd need to use a First Page Header/Footer, obviously. See here for
various tips on setting on letterhead:
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm
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Corentin Cras-Méneur
> I don't think you can lock the position, but if you put the logo and address
> in the header and footer, people will have to deliberately go into the
> header/footer and change it. It won't get in the way as they create a letter
> and type along. Most people find this sufficient--that's how it's commonly
> done.
Headers and footers are a very good option (when you can sue them).
Otherwise, you *should* be able to lock an image at a specific position
in a page (it's in the options once you double-click the image in the
page where you have inserted it), but I find the process EXTREMELY
buggy. I've spent hours (really hours) getting images to stay in place
in some documents.
Corentin
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Helpful Harry
korve...@NoSpam.mvps.org (Corentin Cras-Méneur) wrote:
> Daiya Mitchell <daiya...@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:
>
> > I don't think you can lock the position, but if you put the logo and address
> > in the header and footer, people will have to deliberately go into the
> > header/footer and change it. It won't get in the way as they create a letter
> > and type along. Most people find this sufficient--that's how it's commonly
> > done.
>
> Headers and footers are a very good option (when you can sue them).
> Otherwise, you *should* be able to lock an image at a specific position
> in a page (it's in the options once you double-click the image in the
> page where you have inserted it), but I find the process EXTREMELY
> buggy. I've spent hours (really hours) getting images to stay in place
> in some documents.
It depends what you mean by "stay in place". For images and text boxes
you can go into the options and chnage it to NOT move with the text
around it.
For a text box: click in the text box or on the border, then either
double-click the border or go to Format > Text Box menu option. In the
window that appears got to the Layout tab and then click on the
Advanced button. Another window appears, go to to the Picture Position
tab and turn off "Move object with text" that's near the bottom. Click
on the OK buttons until you're back at the document again.
For images the same can be done, but before clicking on the Avanced
button you may first have to set one of the Wrapping options to
anything except "In line with text".
This will stop the text box / image from moving when the person is
typing, but it doesn't lock them in place - they can still be manually
dragged around and altered.
There may be a way to lock the elements down, but I've never bothered
looking that deeply. Is it really worth the hassle anyway? Usually I
just make the letterhead a template / stationery page so although peple
can alter the document they're working on they can not alter the
original (at least not by accident).
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
Corentin Cras-Méneur
> It depends what you mean by "stay in place". For images and text boxes
> you can go into the options and chnage it to NOT move with the text
> around it.
Very true. I'm not saying the options aren't there. I'm saying they are
buggy as hell. Even if I properly lock my images, they sometimes jump to
another page or get stuck to the top border.
[...]
> This will stop the text box / image from moving when the person is
> typing, but it doesn't lock them in place - they can still be manually
> dragged around and altered.
Unfortunately, it clearly doesn't always work (and the same is true in
Office 2003 for Windows).
Helpful Harry
korve...@NoSpam.mvps.org (Corentin Cras-Méneur) wrote:
> Helpful Harry <helpfu...@nom.de.plume.com> wrote:
>
> > It depends what you mean by "stay in place". For images and text boxes
> > you can go into the options and chnage it to NOT move with the text
> > around it.
>
> Very true. I'm not saying the options aren't there. I'm saying they are
> buggy as hell. Even if I properly lock my images, they sometimes jump to
> another page or get stuck to the top border.
>
> [...]
> > This will stop the text box / image from moving when the person is
> > typing, but it doesn't lock them in place - they can still be manually
> > dragged around and altered.
>
> Unfortunately, it clearly doesn't always work (and the same is true in
> Office 2003 for Windows).
I can' say I've noticed that problem (then again I try and succeed in
not using Word very much), but it IS a Microsoft application, so do you
really expect it to work properly and consistently?? :o\
Corentin Cras-Méneur
> I can' say I've noticed that problem (then again I try and succeed in
> not using Word very much), but it IS a Microsoft application, so do you
> really expect it to work properly and consistently?? :o\
:-D
Well looking at WMP for MacOS X you'd wonder about that, but since
Office is made by the MacBU by Mac users for Mac users (not like WMP), I
clearly have hopes in this regard ;-))
> Helpful Harry
> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
Jeffrey Weston [MSFT]
Another solution to your problem aside from using the Header/Footer, is to
Protect the Section of your document which contains the Picture/Object
Anchor. To do this:
1. Put the Picture/Object Anchor in its own Section.
a) To Locate the Picture/Object Anchor: In the Menu Bar go: Word |
Preferences...
b) Click "View" in the list
c) Check the "Object Anchors" check box.
[The Anchor should now appear on the Left hand side of the page, when you
select the picture.]
d) Insert Section Breaks around the Anchor by going: Insert | Break -->
Section Break (Continuous)
[You can move the Anchor if you want by simply clicking and dragging it up
or down.]
2. Then you can Protect the Document from editing for just that Section by
going: Tools | Protect Documents...
a) Click the "Forms" radio button
b) Then click the Sections... button
c) Leave only the Section that your Anchor is in, checked.
[You do not need to specify a password if you do not want to.]
Now the Anchor (which is a device that tells Word where your picture is on
the document) is Protected. This in turn, protects your Picture. You'll
notice you now cannot select it (and thus cannot move or change its
properties).
The "Lock Anchor" setting under "Advanced Layout" is a little misleading
since it does not Lock the picture itself but locks the anchor to a
paragraph. So if you move that paragraph the Anchor stays accociated with
that paragraph. (Meaning the position of the Picture is always relative to
that paragraph.) This setting along with "Move with Text", are mainly used
when you're typing or editing a document's content and you don't want the
Picture moving all around.
The Protecting a document's Section is the way to prevent direct editing of
just the Picture (including its properties).
Hope this Helps!
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"Steve" <st...@kinggrafx.com> wrote in message
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Lel
I have also been trying to lock a text box into a fixed position on the
page. I've been a Word user for about 10 years and do all sorts of getarounds
for many things. My scenario is that I have several text boxes grouped
together (3 contain Fields to be filled in by the user ) and then with a
background text box with a fill effect in it. So 4 boxes are grouped together
into one element. I cannot put it in a header due to the nature of the
document. The document is a template so users can't move my original
positioning. My ideal solution would be if I could do a fill gradient effect
as part of regular shading - then I could set up as a table, form protected.
Alas, not possible as far as I can see.
Lesley Richards
UK
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Ritika Pathak [MSFT]
You can lock the text box group by following these steps:
- Select the text box group
- Format | Object | Layout tab
- In Layout tab, press "Advanced" button
- In Advanced Layout | Picture Position, check "Lock anchor"
This will lock the text box group with the paragraph. So if you move the
associated paragraph, the text box group moves with it.
Also, you can protect the text box group as suggested in Jeffrey's mail.
Thanks,
Ritika [MSFT]
MacWord Test
Mac Business Unit, Microsoft
"Lel" <L...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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lel
I knew all these options. Obviously I didn't clarify my needs properly.
Never mind. I'll rethink. I am seeking the ability to lock to an x, y
co-ordinate on a page rather than a to a paragraph.
Lesley
John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]
Sorry: I should have jumped in there.
Word can't lock anything to a "page" because a Word file does not contain
any "pages" to lock things too. I know, it sounds strange, but a Word
document is an entire text flow: everything flows relative to the top of the
file. The "pages" we see and print are "generated" by Word when it displays
or prints, but they do not exist in the file so you can't mount anything on
them.
You can, however, lock to a paragraph as explained by Ritika, then have Word
compute the position of the object with respect to either the sheet of paper
(the "page") or the margins.
This means that the object will always follow the paragraph to which its
anchor is attached, but will be positioned at your desired location on the
page that that paragraph paginates onto.
So if you lock and object to a paragraph on page 5, you can position it two
inches down and three inches to the right of the top and left margins. If
you then add text so that the paragraph you anchored to moves to page 6, the
object will move with the paragraph but remain 2 inches down and 3 inches
in.
What you can't do is say "I want that object to stay on page 5." Word is
designed to prevent that -- it's a word processor, and by design, word
processors flow text. You need a page layout program for what you want:
something designed to create a document with fixed pages.
There are some outrageous cheats you can get away with if your budget
doesn't run to dashing out to buy yourself a copy of Quark Express right
now... One is to use an IF field in your running footer with an expression
that says "If this is page 5, then insert this object, otherwise don't."
This is very advanced Word usage: if you have to do a lot of this, get back
to me and I will explain how to do it. I wouldn't do it in a document that
someone else might have to work on, though: the technique is so specialised
and complicated that they won't have a clue how to work with it.
Cheers
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AngePaton
I have a document with text boxes down the side of the main body text, if I
delete a paragraph, the text boxes anchored to the paragraph deletes as well.
I'd like to be able to delete paragraphs and leave the text box inatct. I've
tried all the Advanced Layout options. Can you help.
Beth Rosengard
John's off gallivanting in Scotland for a while with limited Internet access
so ...
The only way I know of to delete the paragraph without deleting the text box
that's anchored to it is to move the anchor to another paragraph.
In Page Layout view, with Show/Hide formatting (the pilcrow icon) turned on,
if you select the text box, you will see its anchor off to the left of the
paragraph it's anchored to. You can then drag the anchor to the left of a
paragraph you won't be deleting.
HTH,
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