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
    2014-04-01T09:03:58+00:00

    In this case all text rotated will return to normal angle.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-01T08:34:59+00:00

    I think it's a ruse to make people pay lots of money for Visio.

    It's such a shame. I cannot believe it would be difficult to fix. Being able to do flow charts within Word would be useful, not least because you can include cross references - e.g. to more details. ("In at-risk group (table 1 on p7)?" which will update automatically.

    I've started using the free Chrome app Gifty...

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-01T01:34:31+00:00

    You can change the file format to word 2007 and after that, you can work on it like in word 2007

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-02-11T00:03:57+00:00

    WOW.

    When i couldn't align objects in word 2010 (in 2014), I googled and found this thread. Seems people having been having this ridiculous problem for 4 years.

    Its threads like these and problems like these that make me fear for Word and Microsoft's future.

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