Cannot align objects in a drawing canvas

Anonymous
2010-07-08T15:31:05+00:00

I have several clipart objects in a drawing canvas and I want to align them with each other and within the canvas. The alignment options are all greyed out regardless of whether I have "align to page" or "align to canvas" selected.

This happens in Word 2010 on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista

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Anonymous
2010-09-02T09:38:03+00:00

Summarising:

1 - Inside the canvas you cannot align objects

2 - You have to move object outside the canvas in order to align them, BUT:

3 - Outside the canvas you cannot use connectors...

A bit frustrating for people who work every single day with word...

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-07-26T19:31:21+00:00

    A table may work for object alignment. Create table; insert objects into table. Select the table and take off borders. You'd have to resize table and objects until you get the right visual.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-07-26T16:07:48+00:00

    Defeaturing is really not what I expect from Microsoft.

    ! BUT !

    Since I'm using Word 2010 I'm discovering a lot of stuff that does not work anymore. I agree that there are plenty of new features.

    I like them a lot!

    ! BUT !

    Pleas run your regression tests before releasing a software!

    ! AND !

    If you get a feedback in the beta phase why do you deliver the software without fixing this issue?

    MICROSOFT PLEASE FIX THIS!

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-06-04T04:32:27+00:00

    Come on Microsoft! 

    Fix this bug..

    It has been around since the beta.. what? more than a year now!

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-05-03T08:09:20+00:00

    It works but it will defeat the purpose of using word 2011 because the version 2011 supposed to be the updated and more users friendly.

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