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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / November 2005Send to back not working
My wife and I are both running 10.4.3 (I'm on the iMac, she's on the iBook) We've both got Office 2004 version 11.2 Today she tried to place a drawing from Microsoft Clip Art into a document and draw a square box around it. She was then unable to send this box to the back, behind the drawing. The clip art drawing could not be sent to the front either. In both instances the menu command 'send to back' was NOT greyed out. The only work around was to assign 'no fill' to the square box, fine if you only want a white background for your picture. I tried to do the same thing on my iMac and had no problem. In both cases (on both Macs) the clip art drawing's wrap style was selected to 'square' ('in line with text' wouldn't let me send to the front on my Mac either). Oddly on my Mac, changing the style from 'square' to 'tight' sends the image back behind the box but changing back again to 'square' the drawing still refuses to come back to the front! One other thing: on my Mac, when I draw a simple square box I get the anchor symbol appearing beside it. This does not happen on my wife's Mac. What's happening? Noel Bailey Hi Noel- Here are a few thoughts on the issues: On 11/27/05 10:58 AM, in article BFAF8808.41B4%noel.bailey56@btinternet.com, > My wife and I are both running 10.4.3 (I'm on the iMac, she's on the iBook) > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > The only work around was to assign 'no fill' to the square box, fine if you > only want a white background for your picture. The Clip Art is normally inserted with In Line wrapping, so it is actually treated as a _character_, not as a picture. So, if one object is inline & the other isn't, Send to Back (as well as others) won't work, but Behind Text or In Front of Text will. Even so, you can apply a Fill Color directly to most In Line Clip Art & you can apply Format>Borders & Shading, as well, without having to use the additional rectangle. If you apply different wrapping, the image is then treated as a picture and you can use the standard Fill Color (Paint Can) & Line Color (Paint Brush) tools on the object. > I tried to do the same thing on my iMac and had no problem. In both cases > (on both Macs) the clip art drawing's wrap style was selected to 'square' [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > back behind the box but changing back again to 'square' the drawing still > refuses to come back to the front! Not all Wrapping Styles 'synch' with one another. Wrapping is a property of the object it is applied to, so objects with different wrap properties will interact differently with one another. If they _do_ have the same Wrap applied you can swap the stacking order as you please.> > One other thing: on my Mac, when I draw a simple square box I get the anchor > symbol appearing beside it. This does not happen on my wife's Mac. On your system the Show/Hide ¶ is turned ON, hers is OFF > What's happening? HTH |:>) |
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