Hi, I'm a very occasional user of MS Word (2010) and I'm trying to write a user guide for the Access database I've developed. My problem is that the graphics elements (arrows from words in my text to screen prints) are sometimes dissociating themselves
when I 'print' - as opposed to typing away in Print Layout. Is there a way of keeping certain lines or text and graphical elements together on one page? Or perhaps there's another more 'in tune with MS Word' way of pointing from comments in my text to screen
shots? Any help for a naive user will be much appreciated.
Text and graphics are on separate "layers". They don't easily stay together. Rather than using a graphical arrow to point from text to graphic just use text references like "See figure 1", and include a caption "Figure 1: some flapdoodle or other" under
the picture.
Personally, when I insert pictures I prefer to use the "In line with Text" option to keep it from "floating" around. That way as you add more text the picture keeps the same relative position. You don't get the 'pretty" text wrapping around the picture, but
I'm willing to "waste" a little space.
Right click on the picture, pick "Wrap Text", then "In Line with Text"
To keep the picture and its caption together you have a couple of options.
A. insert the picture in a 1 row 1 column table, put the caption immediately below it in the same cell
use <SHF><ENTER> to put a "soft return" after the picture, then type the caption
In both cases you want to use the "Keep with next" and "Keep together" paragraph attributes. Select both the caption and picture, right click, select "Paragraph", select "Line and Page Breaks" tab, turn on both those options.
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