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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...
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.
Masashi Nezumiya, I tried your VBA solution and it worked! Thank you very much!
Yeah, this is really frustrating me. As the title says: cannot align objects within a canvas in Word 2010. The option 'Align selected objects' is greyed out.
To top it off, Microsoft will not let me raise a support ticket: their support web page tells me that my product ID is for some 'Home Use Program' version and has expired. well that isn't true, I bought it from a Microsoft recommended online retailer with a student discount.
I'm trying to type out course notes, and there's lots of places where I want to use boxes and connectors. I can't get a simple vertical line from one box to another without the centre align function!
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...
I have written some tiny code to avoid this issue.
With this code you can align items on the canvas.
I hope this will be some help for someone.