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
    2013-05-31T12:35:33+00:00

    It is fixed in Office 2013. However, the resizing of the drawing canvas by clicking "Fit" only works in one direction - either horizontal or vertical but not both.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-08-15T16:18:39+00:00

    Yesssssssssss!

    It's sad, but of all the changes and improvements made in Office 2013, this might be the feature I'm most happy about.  Hopefully they don't break it again before the final release.

    Thanks for the confirmation :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-08-15T12:40:12+00:00

    Has anyone tried the Office 2013 Beta?? Is it possible to align objects in a canvas in that version??

    I've been following this bug since Ofiice 20120 came out.  Each time I see an Windows Update for Office 2010 I get excited that maybe THIS TIME Microsoft has finally fixed this regression, but after this month's patch Tuesday I am again left disappointed.

    At this point I must admit defeat and hope that maybe Office 2013 will finally see this bug squashed. I refuse to "upgrade" if it is not.

    Yes, it has been fixed in the new release - Office 2013! YEAH!

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-07-09T01:13:45+00:00

    These options are available for me:

    1. The Align commands under the Picture Tools, Format ribbon only work when you have a picture selected

    2.  The Align commands under Drawing Tools are only available when you have the canvas selected, and most of them are grayed out because they don't apply to a canvas.

    If this answer solves your problem, please check, Mark as Answered. If this answer helps, please click the Vote as Helpful button. Cheers Shane Devenshire

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