[dba-Tech] Align pics in a Word document

Susan Harkins ssharkins at gmail.com
Tue May 14 08:19:51 CDT 2019


I just wrote about this a few months ago Arthur -- glad someone answered you
more quickly than I did. 

There are several position and wrap properties that you can use to get just
what you need. But this one -- the one Dan describes fixes about 90% of what
we need. 

Susan H. 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Arthur
Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 9:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Align pics in a Word document

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.
>
>
> --
> Arthur
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