TLC Tips of the Week:                          from Helen Olberg

This week’s tip is about moving graphics, pictures, and text boxes in a Word document.

Have you gotten frustrated when trying to move pictures and/or text boxes in a Word document? Sometimes they won’t move, they get in the way, they’re the wrong size, they skip around, etc.

How can you do to handle it?

1. The first step is to determine that your object is ‘floating’ as opposed to ‘inline’. Generally, images that you insert will be ‘inline’. *See note below. To check it, click on the object and try to drag it. Its toolbar should appear and its mouse pointer will remain as a white arrow with a dotted rectangle beneath it.. If the toolbar, does not appear, right-click the object and click on ‘Show xxx toolbar’. Within the toolbar you should see a Text Wrapping button.
   Click the ‘Text Wrapping’ button. If all options are greyed out, the object is already ‘floating’. If not greyed out, click on ‘Tight’. Your object should now ‘float as you drag it around the document.
2. If your objects have all been placed on the same ‘drawing canvas’, they will move together with no more effort on your part.
3. If you have multiple objects that you want to move at the same time, click on the first object, hold down the Shift key and click each of the additional objects. Now they’ll all move together. They’ll also resize, relatively.
4. Drag the object to its new location.

You can "nudge" an object in small increments by selecting it and pressing the arrow keys, unless the object is on a drawing canvas.

To “nudge” it in smaller increments, press Ctrl as you drag the object.

* Changeable in Tools, Options…, Edit, Insert/Paste Pictures as:

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