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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...
It is a kind of workaround, but if i get it right, the grid is drawn on the page, i.e. the grid lines start from the top of the page - it is page-related, there is no local grid for a canvas. And this is bad. I draw a picture in a canvas, using grid, then I type some text above the canvas, or just re-align left/right or center the canvas on the page - and voila! - the drawing is no longer stuck to the grid. Moreover, when my object in canvas is on the grid, I check the box "Attach objects to invisible grid" and as click OK, it gets off the grid! So using the grid with canvas is tricky, best way is to finish the drawing in canvas during one session, then group the objects together and save it before it gets misplaced.
As for the topic, can you guys apply to the official MS Support? Have you tried? So that they would open a support ticket and register this as an issue, or the way they do it? Because this place is just a forum, like "self-support", there are some MVPs or other MS people here, but it is not official, just for advisory purpose.
I have tried to apply, but I use MS Office 2010 on the terms of MS Home Use Program (so I can legally use at home the software licensed by my company) and I guess my license does not include much support, so I am unable to complete the steps to get the support from MS and get some stupid message instead.
May be someone here can do it - apply for official MS Support, and get a real reply, making it clear that they admit it as an issue and it is scheduled to be fixed? Because talking here is useless, they can't hear us, or maybe they can and laugh wickedly instead of reporting/registering the issue.
Thanks Darlene. Great suggestion!
under View check the Gridline box. Thats what i use to allign and drawl lines, etc.
Darlene Stedman
Thanks for heloping to keep this feed alive. Hopefully they'll get it fixed for the next SP or version. :)