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MS Office Forum / Word / Graphics / December 2003moving off of grid
this is a re-post... no answers yet. am having trouble using lines, squares ovals, etc in a 2002 ms word doc with grid lock, with grid showing. I have a line that I cannot move or delete without the entire project skipping off the grid. It makes no difference if I disable 'snap to grid'. What's happening, and how can I fix this ?? thanks in advance jnr Hi Jnr, Not sure I can help, but... What do you mean, more exactly, by "skipping off the grid"? Do you mean nothing aligns anymore? Or that it behaves as if the alignement or indents relative to the page suddenly change? Is any of this stuff grouped? Or is it in a "Drawing canvas"? When you manipulate the line in question are you affecting the text at all? Any chance this underlined text? > this is a re-post... no answers yet. am having trouble using lines, squares > ovals, etc in a 2002 ms word doc with > grid lock, with grid showing. I have a line that I cannot move or delete > without the entire project skipping off the grid. It makes no difference if > I disable 'snap to grid'. What's happening, and how can I fix this ?? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.mvps.org/word This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) (I meant to post this to group rather than 'reply') I mean just that... everything just goes catawampus !! No, it isn't in a drawing canvas, and this particular line I am moving isn't associated with text at all. What happens is some lines stay in place, and other lines and objects jump out of place, and I have to 'undo move object' in order to go back to original placing of all objects. Strange, ehhh !!? Maybe it's a poltergeist ha ha.. jnr > Hi Jnr, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Jnr, > I mean just that... everything just goes catawampus !! Well, this is the first time I've ever encountered the term 'catawampus', so, while I get the general gist, it really doesn't tell me what's happening in terms I can visualize > No, it isn't in a > drawing canvas, and this particular line I am moving isn't associated with > text at all. mmm, well in the strictest terms, every drawing object is associated with text, since it's anchored to a range of text. If you're not seeing the anchors, you can turn that on in Tools/Options/View. > What happens is some lines stay in place, and other lines and > objects jump out of place, and I have to 'undo move object' in order to go > back to original placing of all objects. Strange, ehhh Well, it sounds like something in the document structure may have been damaged... ..but I'm still a big confused about "with grid lock, with grid showing. I have a line that I cannot move or delete without the entire project skipping off the grid." When I have a grid displayed, the grid covers the entire area of a page, up to the margins. And that on every page. So you're saying the drawing objects all move off into the margins? How much text is there on the page? And what's the text flow in relation to these graphical objects? (Square, tight, behind, in front...) What you describe reminds me a little bit about what happens when the text to which graphics are anchored all of a sudden is aligned to a different position on the page (changed indent, for example). All of a sudden, all the objects anchored to the text jump the same amount, in the same direction, UNLESS they're formatted to NOT "move with text", but relative to the page. And the next factor is, that a graphic will always be on the same page as the paragraph to which it is anchored. So if text wrap formatting is forcing a paragraph to another page, that will "drag along" the graphical object. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.mvps.org/word This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) btw, I did move this 'infected' line, and now I had to go through the entire document, move it from the place it was knocked to, and realign it back onto the grid. Quite frustrating. Also, when I select from the toolbar to place another line, square or circle, the grid flashes off the screen, and I am taken to another page where I now need to scroll up to the page I am working on to insert the item I chose from the toolbar. Then everything returns to normal again. > Hi Jnr, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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