Cannot align objects in a drawing canvas

These options are available for me:

1. The Align commands under the Picture Tools, Format ribbon only work when you have a picture selected

2.  The Align commands under Drawing Tools are only available when you have the canvas selected, and most of them are grayed out because they don't apply to a canvas.

hi Shane

I have tried this with clip art, shapes, as well as pictures inside a drawing canvas. Depending on what you have selected, you may get the Drawing Tools Format tab or the Pictures Tools Format tab. While in the Drawing Canvas with multiple objects selected the Align options (on either the Drawing Tools tab or Pictures Tools Format tab) are all greyed out. In Word 2007, however, there was also an option in the Align command that included "Align to Canvas" - which is no longer available in 2010.

In case Word 2010 developers see this thread, what we want to do in office 2010, is what the last bullet (under "Add a drawing" section) in the following page explains for Word 2007.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/add-a-drawing-to-a-document-HA010097040.aspx

If you want to have a picture separated from the text, you would naturally put them in Canvas (I always do that to easier manage the document's look). In that case, all the align options gets disabled. I think this look more like a bug rather than a feature!

Yes Reshadi, that is what it is supposed to do, but all the Align options are greyed out. I have spoken to the Research team and they added it to my list of 'things that don't work in 2010". If I hear back I'll certainly post what they say.

Thanks.