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From: In Need of Help In Need of on 13 Jan 2010 11:11
I have a photo inserted at the top of a page and set to "lock anchor" and
"behind text". When the document becomes long enough to warrant a second page
the photo jumps to the top of the second page instead of staying in place at
the top of the first page. Why is this happening? Is there something else I
need to do to insure it stays at the top of the first page?

Thanks for any input! I'm baffled!
From: Jay Freedman on 13 Jan 2010 14:16
In Need of Help wrote:
> I have a photo inserted at the top of a page and set to "lock anchor"
> and "behind text". When the document becomes long enough to warrant a
> second page the photo jumps to the top of the second page instead of
> staying in place at the top of the first page. Why is this happening?
> Is there something else I need to do to insure it stays at the top of
> the first page?
>
> Thanks for any input! I'm baffled!

Every floating image or text box is "anchored" to a specific paragraph in
the main text layer, as explained in
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/AnchorToHeader.htm. It's a limitation of
Word that the image and its anchor paragraph *must always* be on the same
page. Your photo is at the top of the page, but its anchor paragraph is
wherever the cursor was when you inserted the picture -- probably the last
paragraph of the original page. When that paragraph is forced to the next
page, the picture goes with it.

If you go into the Options dialog and turn on the display of object anchors,
and then click on the picture to select it, you'll see an anchor symbol in
the left margin next to its anchor paragraph.

The only effect of the poorly named "lock anchor" setting is to prevent
accidental dragging of the anchor symbol from one paragraph to another. If
you turn off that setting, you can drag the anchor to the first paragraph of
the document; then lock the anchor again. That will minimize the chance that
the picture will go to the second page -- you'd have to insert a whole page
worth of text before the original first paragraph.

The better choice is to go into the Page Setup dialog and turn on the
first-page header; then delete the picture from its current place, move the
cursor into the first-page header, and paste. Position the picture as you
want it, and then close the header pane.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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