Re: Cannot nudge graphic and cannot rotate text box
- From: Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:18:31 +0100
Word is hopeless for that.
Grab a free trial of OmniGraffle from omnigroup.com It will be good
enough for what you want without paying anything.
You might sniff about their stencil collection for a quick start.
In article <1AB41766-1CE4-432F-940D-88FD3ACA0465@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Miss
P.T. <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am running Word 2004 on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4.9. Both the
operating system and Word are fully updated. I am putting together a simple
(yeah, right!) flyer, using an image from the clip gallery which I have
modified to remove its colour (it's a simple sun graphic). I wish to nudge it
so that it's in the centre of the page, unfortunately, the nudge tools are
unavailable (greyed out) and option+relevant arrow key only serves to
deselect the image. Now the image was dowloaded from the MS Clip Gallery
Online, and is in WMF format (which I always understood to be Windows
MetaFile, which may be the problem - what with me using a Mac an' all. Yes,
it sounds ridiculous to me, too, as I type it, but I'm clutching at straws
here...)
The other problem I'm experiencing involves text boxes. On each ray of the
sun I am wishing to place a text box containing the number '2', with the base
of the two aligned with the 'circle' that represents the centre of the sun
(does that make sense - the 'rays' are essentially triangles, and the centre
is circular). I need to place each '2' a little way off the bottom of each
ray, with the top parallel to where the triangle begins to narrow. However, I
am unable to rotate the text box (the 'rotate' tool is also unavailable -
greyed out) and you are only able to rotate the text within the box to one of
two positions - 90 or 270 degrees - which is stupid, as I'm sure I'm not the
only person on the planet who would require a rotation of 180.
Word does not make for a good DTP tool - I am a semi-trained graphics
designer and, like all GDs, I am a perfectionist; if it ain't perfect, then I
don't submit it. I cannot afford to purchase any additional software, so I'm
stuck with Word at the moment. From what I can glean from the scant
information in the Help files, what I am wishing to do should be achievable,
it's just that I must be doing something wrong. This is a flyer for my
slimming group and it needs to be emailed to the group leader for approval
before Monday (23/04).
Any assistance would be very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
Sarah
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