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    Anybody good at dealing with pictures in word?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by sliding_doors, Jan 10, 2009.

  1. sliding_doors

    sliding_doors Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi - this problem is a little difficult to explain clearly (but I suspect that there is an easy solution)

    Basically Im trying to create a macro which aligns pictures to the same horizontal point on the right-hand side of the page. So basically when I insert a picture I want a macro which aligns it to a point a few cm in from the right hand side of the page.

    I know that you can set the horizontal picture position through 'advanced layout'. However, when you set the absolute position this aligns pictures based on their left hand border (so if you have 2 pictures of different widths they will not be aligned on to the same point on the right just on their left)

    Other than that you can use 'horizontal alignment' but this can only be set to 'Right relative to column/page/margin/character' and I don't want any of those points [I need one a few cm in]. What I really need is some setting which allows me to set the 'absolute position Xcm to the left of page/margin.

    I was wondering whether anyone had any ideas how to do this? I know this is quite difficult to understand but I couldn't find a way to explain it clearer (Sorry)
     
  2. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Sounds awfully messy and difficult to me, but then, I have never used macros.

    However:
    Why don't you place the pictures in a table? I always do that to make them more manageable, as sometimes they seem to "hop" all over the place...
     
  3. Hiker

    Hiker Notebook Deity

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    Yeah, put them in a table. You can always set the table properties to align so far from the left. If you want text to align to it, make it one row and two columns
     
  4. sliding_doors

    sliding_doors Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks will try that