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
    2011-08-03T17:18:24+00:00

    Masashi Nezumiya, I tried your VBA solution and it worked!  Thank you very much!

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-08-04T06:41:10+00:00

    >KineticFlow

    Thank you for your reply.

    I also wrote about "calling macro from buttons on ribbon".

    http://nezumiya.net/en/archives/72

    FYI.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-10-04T01:35:49+00:00

    Laurie,

    I found this alignment issue to be a problem too.  Unless you require the format options available only to the docx format, you can save your document as the older Word 97-2003 doc format.  When in doc format, the canvas returns to the older version you described using.  More to the point, all of the older alignment features return!

    I hope this helps.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-01-18T00:36:32+00:00

    I want to echo this. Not allowing alignment of objects inside a drawing canvas is dumb. Microsoft: please fix this.

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