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
    2014-12-02T16:59:05+00:00

    Well it is fixed in Office 2013. You can align and group objects just fine. Too bad there is not a legacy fix for older versions of Office.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-02T16:01:23+00:00

    Yes, sadly I had to follow this route, too.  Save as a WORD 2007 document and then copy the concoction to a Word 2013 document.  Nice forward thinking there by the developers.  I wonder how many of them programmers work on Macs and Pages privately.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-02T15:59:27+00:00

    What is annoying too is that you cannot group photos and text boxes together inside a canvas.  I use a text box below a photo for the caption.  OUTSIDE the canvas I can group them, but I cannot copy this grouped photo/caption unit into a canvas.  It makes as much sense as 'living corpse.'

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-25T07:38:40+00:00

    I just discovered that if you group your shapes, then the connectors will work within the group. This is a good workaround I think.

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