[dba-Tech] Align pics in a Word document

[Arthur Fuller]

Thanks a ton, Dan. A new trick learned, and the day is young.

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:01 AM Daniel Waters <df.waters at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi Arthur - this one's easy!
>
> Right-click on each picture.
>
> Select 'Size and Position ...'
>
> Click the 'Text Wrapping' tab on top.
>
> Click on 'In front of text' or 'Behind text'.
>
> Now you can click on the picture and move it wherever you need it!
>
> Good Luck!
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
> Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: May 14, 2019 5:21
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Align pics in a Word document
>
> I am writing a Word document, which contains two pics snipped from the net.
> I saved these to disk and then pasted them into the document; so far all is
> well. But I want to place the pics side by side, not above-and-beneath. I
> cannot figure out how to do this. They will fit side by side, and that
> ready comparison is essential to the point of the document. Think of a
> Before And After poster or something similar: it can't be effective without
> side-by-side comparison.
> Susan is our acknowledge Professor Emeritus of Word, so at the risk of
> redundancy I'm cc'ing her for an expert opinion, which is not to slight any
> of you retired developers, but just in case of massive failure, Susan H.
> Harkins is my Go-To expert.
> In case anyone cares, when I'm done I shall be happy to email you a copy
> when the piece is ready, although I prefer that point as expressed by W.H.
> Auden, "A poem is never finished, but only abandoned." Which recalls the
> writer in a Russian (English? they share many similar flaws) novel who has
> been rewriting the first sentence of the first paragraph of his forthcoming
> novel, for twenty years, and remains unsatisfied.
>
>
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> Arthur
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Arthur