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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / March 2008Shape positioning
Hello everyone, I am working on a project that requires me to calculate the exact position of shapes on a page (absolute position from the top left corner of the page). Initially, I tried selecting the shape and using the get_information method to retrieve this information but found that this returns the positon of the anchor. I couldn't establish a relation between that anchor and the top left corner of the image. I have a specific case when the anchor appears on the bottom left corner of the image, the vertical positoning is 0 pt from the paragraph and horizontal positioning is 0 pt from a column. In another case the anchor appears in the top left corner of the image with the same parameters. What are the factors affecting the positioning of the anchor? Is there a reliable way to always obtain the absolute positon of the top left corner of a shape? Your help is much appreciated. Take a look at the Top and Left properties of the Shape object in VBA help. The anchor is the position of the paragraph to which the shape is attached. Every shape is anchored to a paragraph, either in the body of the document or in a header or footer.  SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup > Hello everyone, > I am working on a project that requires me to calculate the exact position [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Your help is much appreciated. Hi Jonathan, Thanks for taking the time to reply. The help for Top is : "The position of a shape is measured from the upper-left corner of the shape's bounding box to the shape's anchor. The RelativeVerticalPosition property controls whether the shape's anchor is positioned alongside the line, the paragraph, the margin, or the edge of the page." The help for Left is : "The position of a shape is measured from the upper-left corner of the shape's bounding box to the shape's anchor. The RelativeHorizontalPosition property controls whether the anchor is positioned alongside a character, column, margin, or the edge of the page." I am assuming that when the top value is 0, and the left value is 0 then the anchor should be placed in the top left corner of the shape. I have documents that demonstrate this not to be the case. I can upload one of these documents to you if you are interested. I thank you again for your help. Ferass > Take a look at the Top and Left properties of the Shape object in VBA help. > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > - Show quoted text - So proceed as follows. - Read the RelativeVerticalPosition and RelativeHorizontalPosition and store them somewhere. - Set both the RelativeVerticalPosition and RelativeHorizontalPosition to be relative to Page - Read the Top and Left properties, which will now give you the position of the shape relative to the top left corner of the page (in points) - restore the original settings of RelativeVerticalPosition and RelativeHorizontalPosition SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Hi Jonathan, Thanks for taking the time to reply. The help for Top is : "The position of a shape is measured from the upper-left corner of the shape's bounding box to the shape's anchor. The RelativeVerticalPosition property controls whether the shape's anchor is positioned alongside the line, the paragraph, the margin, or the edge of the page." The help for Left is : "The position of a shape is measured from the upper-left corner of the shape's bounding box to the shape's anchor. The RelativeHorizontalPosition property controls whether the anchor is positioned alongside a character, column, margin, or the edge of the page." I am assuming that when the top value is 0, and the left value is 0 then the anchor should be placed in the top left corner of the shape. I have documents that demonstrate this not to be the case. I can upload one of these documents to you if you are interested. I thank you again for your help. Ferass On Mar 14, 12:59 pm, "Jonathan West" <jw...@mvps.org> wrote: > Take a look at the Top and Left properties of the Shape object in VBA > help. [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Thanks again for your help. This works for many documents. But for the ones to which I was referring where the anchor is positioned in the lower left corner of the image, the coordinates are not correct. Even when I try to change the alignment from Word (not programatically), the value that appears in the absolute positon field in the picture position tab of the advanced layout dialogue box is incorrect and reflects what I am getting programatically. Any other suggestions? Thanks kindly, Ferass > So proceed as follows. > [quoted text clipped - 91 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Is the anchor within a table cell? SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Thanks again for your help. This works for many documents. But for the ones to which I was referring where the anchor is positioned in the lower left corner of the image, the coordinates are not correct. Even when I try to change the alignment from Word (not programatically), the value that appears in the absolute positon field in the picture position tab of the advanced layout dialogue box is incorrect and reflects what I am getting programatically. Any other suggestions? Thanks kindly, Ferass On Mar 14, 6:02 pm, "Jonathan West" <jw...@mvps.org> wrote: > So proceed as follows. > [quoted text clipped - 97 lines] > > - Show quoted text - No, the anchor appears within the left margin. I also have the "Move object with Text", "Allow overlap" and "Layout in table cell" checked while the "Lock Anchor" is unchecked. The Text Wrapping is "Top and Bottom". Does the fact that the text wrapping is top and bottom and the height of the image is larger than the distance from the anchor to the bottom of the page affecting anything? Thanks again Jonathan. Ferass > Is the anchor within a table cell? > [quoted text clipped - 126 lines] > > - Show quoted text -
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