MS Word glitch?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Christine Pellar-Kosbar reports: <<In MS Word, when I insert a graphic 
into a text box, it inserts fine.>>

Don't use text boxes; they're agents of the devil, and cause enormous 
grief for editors and for people who prefer to work in Normal view. 
(Among other things, depending on your version of Word, they're not 
included in the search and replace function. They also tend to become 
detached from their context when someone in a hurry uses this feature, 
leading to all kinds of grief from mysterious floating chunks of text.)

<<But when I create a second text box, the graphic from the first box 
is automatically copied into the second box. If I delete this second 
graphic, the first one disappears as well... All of the pictures are in 
the left margin. What (in your experience) is the best way to do 
this?>>

I've had good luck with using tables; in this case, you'd want a table 
whose leftmost cell has been stretched into the left margin. If you 
paste or insert a graphic into a table cell, it flows with the text 
that describes it if you insert or delete text above the table, it 
remains visible in Normal and Layout views, and it avoids the need to 
rely on text boxes. Worth a try!

--Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)


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