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Change the absolute position of an image that is 'in line with text'?

Anonymous
2022-08-26T18:08:24+00:00

The positioning defaults bring in the image as a negative number when the text wrapping is set to 'in line with text', this means the image is covering the text whereas I want it to come in 'in line with text' but to be below the text. The positioning values are greyed out when I try to change them and only become editable when I change the text wrapping type. I know I can just change the text wrapping and manually adjust the position but if I am writing a report and bringing in a lot of images, this is much more time consuming than them automatically coming in where I need them.

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  1. John Korchok 231.6K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-08-26T18:57:36+00:00

    "In line with text" is just that: the image is treated as just another text character that is inline with all the others. There is no positioning, other than the varieties you can apply to any other text character, like raising or lowering the character baseline.

    You need to set the picture paste default:

    1. In Word, choose File>Options>Advanced.
    2. Scroll to the Cut, copy and paste section.
    3. Change the Insert/paste picture as dropdown from In lline with text to Square, Tight or Top and bottom (whichever is best for tyour purposes). OK out and test.

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