I haven't read the whole thread, but FWIW, I gave up on most of the anchoring options and generally use: "Anchor AS Character" to keep a graphic element moving in tight formation with text or table.
Like other posters, I don't seem to have enough "spare" hours in my life to figure out exactly what the other anchoring options are really doing based on the language in the Help or on the actual performance of objects assigned those other anchor types. I began by reading the English Help and assuming that the words being used held the same meanings that I have always associated with them. Turned out to be not the case. For example, I haven't yet found a use for "Anchor to page". The description and application seemed straightforward and meaningful until I tried to apply it, then things did not work as I thought I was reading. So I groped around and found a different way to do what I wanted. "Anchor to paragraph" seems to work sometimes, and then I'll do something elsewhere in a document and an "Anchored to paragraph" picture will suddenly find itself straddling a page bottom and hyperspace. Or it will slide on top of another picture (or was it the other picture slid under this one...), or some other oddity. But if I change that picture's anchor method to "Anchor as character", it goes where it's intended and stays there. When I wanted a "watermark" (pale graphic) to underlie the text on document pages, I thought "Anchor to page" might help, but... no. Eventually, some kind people led me to use a HEADER as a footer, and to anchor the graphic to a paragraph in the header (but positioned to the physical bottom of the page). It became the ghostly background over which my text flowed nicely... mostly. And attempting to do the same with a Footer didn't work... go figure. For all in-line graphics, graphics in tables, Notes, Cautions and Warnings icons, I've defaulted to "Anchor as character". Even when I wanted a wall-to-wall header strip with logo and text across the top of a page, I ended up placing the logo with "Anchor as character". It seemed the only way to make it stay where I put it. Has anybody ever created a nice table that relates and contrasts all the uses and interactions, the indications and the contra-indications of the various "Anchor to..." and "Anchor as..." options? I'd do one myself, but then I'd have to understand all the permutations, corner-cases, and downright obscurity, and then I wouldn't need a table to figure it out. :-) - kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
