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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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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...
Amen. Very disappointing.
I've used "Word" for years, but 2010 seems too-clever-by-half.
It used to be that I could select several objects - whether clip art, pictures, drawing objects, text boxes - whatever. Then on the Drawing Toolbar I could click "Align" and then "Center" or "Left" or "Middle" or "Distribute" or any of a number of commands. Can't seem to figure out how to do that anymore. Help?
Has anyone tried the Office 2013 Beta?? Is it possible to align objects in a canvas in that version??
I've been following this bug since Ofiice 20120 came out. Each time I see an Windows Update for Office 2010 I get excited that maybe THIS TIME Microsoft has finally fixed this regression, but after this month's patch Tuesday I am again left disappointed.
At this point I must admit defeat and hope that maybe Office 2013 will finally see this bug squashed. I refuse to "upgrade" if it is not.
It’s very surprising to see that Microsoft is ignoring this community. My company has thousands of licenses of Office. I regularly use the Align and Distribute Shapes in Word... Please Fix this!!!