![]() Now, here's the interesting part: If you drag and move the image so that its anchor moves to a different paragraph, that image becomes anchored to that different paragraph. Thus, you could select a portion of the text within a paragraph, and you may or may not also select the image, depending on whether the image is anchored within that portion of text. When you first place a floating image or convert an inline image to a floating image, it could be anchored to any point within a paragraph, even though the anchor shows to the upper left of the paragraph. ![]() This may seem overly restrictive, so there is a different way to handle the selected images.īefore getting to that other way, there is an interesting tangent related to object anchors and not selecting images. Thus, one solution to not selecting the images is to not select paragraphs to which images are anchored. When you select a paragraph that has an image anchored to it, then the image is also selected. A blue object anchor appears after selecting a floating image. Just click on a floating image and you will see a blue anchor appear to the left of the first line of the paragraph to which it is anchored. If you use the Show/Hide tool on the Home tab of the ribbon, you can find the anchors for your floating images. By default, floating images are anchored to a paragraph. Why? Because, again, Word treats inline images just like text.įloating images are a different story, however. This means that when you select text, and the selection includes the image, you cannot "unselect" just the image. If your image is inline, then it is treated, by Word, as just another text character. What does this have to do with not selecting images when selecting text? Quite a bit, really. If any other option is selected, then the image is floating. If the first wrapping option (In Line with Text) is selected, then the image is inline. You can easily see how an image is treated in your document. The selected wrapping option indicates how the image was placed in the document. ![]() Hover the mouse over the Wrap Text option, and you can see a flyout menu that shows various wrapping options. The rock-solid answer about whether an image is inline or floating is to right-click on your image to display a Context menu. If you've been working with Word for a while, you pick up clues about images that can tell you what type you are dealing with. There are two ways that images can be placed in a Word document: inline or floating. Understand, however, that the concepts and techniques discussed apply to both. Thus, for the sake of simplicity I'll simply refer to images instead of images and objects. How they are treated in a document, for the purposes of this tip, are essentially the same. In a Word parlance, images are typically pictures and objects are things like shapes or charts. Ian wonders how he can avoid selecting the images or objects along with the text. However, if there is an adjacent image or object, Word selects the text and the image/object and deletes, moves, or copies them both and this is very irritating to Ian, particularly when he only wants to select the text. and then set Switch Keyboard Layout to Not Assigned.When working in a document, Ian often wants to delete or move text. In Windows 10 it's in Settings > Devices > Typing > Advanced keyboard settings.įrom there click Change Key Sequence. In Windows 8 you will need to go to Control Panel > Language > Advanced Settings and then find the Change language bar hot keys button. The option for changing the shortcut is in a different place in Windows 8 and Windows 10. The reason for this is that Windows captures the input before it gets sent to Wireframes for Desktop, preventing the app from ever seeing it. Type in a Label, Text, Title or Subtitle control.ĬTRL - (minus sign) or CTRL scroll mouseįor users with Windows Vista and above, you may find that the Zoom to Fit All ( CTRL SHIFT 0) doesn't work. Type lorem in a Text or Text Area control. To type a literal *,, − -, or in a control, escape it by prefixing it with a \ (backslash): \*, \, −\-, \, Start Editing text of the selected controlĮNTER (single-line controls), CTRL ENTER (multi-line controls) or click anywhere Move selection along horizontal or vertical axis
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