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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...
no progress yet. I've only received confirmation that this feature is no longer working (along with many others). I admit there are some cool new features to Word 2010, like being able to remove backgrounds from photographs right in the document, but I'd sooner have my canvas alignment working again.
You can align objects outside of a canvas but then you have to then group and change wrapping. Inside the canvas you have to 'eye' things up because the alignment no longer works, but then you don't have to worry about grouping. Also, if you change the wrapping on the canvas you can't use the align tools either. (for example, wrap to tight and align to right margin - no longer works). It is very frustrating as I do use Word ALL THE TIME and now my documents are looking a little less professional when things are not lining up nicely on the page.
keep this thread alive and hopefully there will be a patch/fix soon.
Hi Laurie (or anyone else), did you get your "align" problem sorted out?
I had a problem with Word 2007 crashing every 10-20 minutes with a particular document, so I went out and bought Word 2010. Well the crashing problem seems to have gone away, but now I can't align my drawing objects.
Does anyone from microsoft read these threads? Why can't you test your software properly before you release it on unsuspecting customers? Do you realise just how much grief and anguish, not to mention cost as well, you cause the community?
I have no idea what it means because I haven't tried it in either version,
but it sounds very discouraging all round.
Suzanne, does this mean that I have to go back to aligning and grouping? The canvas was so nice that way... just plunk all the images into one box and align. This is very disappointing.