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Moving a Photo in Microsoft Word
Richard Rost 
          
10 days ago
I just saw a video that made me laugh out loud, and if you've ever used Microsoft Word for anything beyond plain text, you'll understand why. The caption reads, "Moving a Photo in Microsoft Word," and then it cuts to a woman gently nudging her coffee table over like an inch... and the entire room goes into chaos.

And honestly... yeah. That's pretty much how Word has always worked.

Anyone who has ever tried to build a resume, newsletter, or flyer in Word knows this pain. You try to move an image just slightly to the left, and suddenly your header disappears, the text jumps to page five, and your footer ends up on the ceiling. You'd think after all these years they would have figured out that we just want the picture to stay where we put it.

This is why I always tell people, Word is for words. If you want precision layout control, you need something like Publisher, or some other purpose-built page layout software. That said, Microsoft has already announced that Publisher is going to be retired in October 2026, so that's one less option.

It reminds me of that time on the Enterprise when Geordi made a small adjustment to the warp field alignment and accidentally triggered a phase shift that threatened to tear the ship apart. Sometimes, it's the smallest changes that cause the biggest headaches.

Anyway, I'll include the link to the video below. If you've ever wrestled with Word's layout engine, you're going to appreciate it. Maybe not as much as Scotty appreciates a well-aligned dilithium chamber... but close.
Richard Rost OP 
          
10 days ago

John Davy 
         
10 days ago
Hi Rick, It is very interesting that you bring this up at the very moment I am adding photos to my 6th children's book.   John
John Davy 
         
10 days ago
Hi Rick, I forgot to mention tha 'yes' I am using Word but wish it were WordPerfect.
Richard Rost OP 
          
10 days ago
Yeah, I really miss WordPerfect, but I'm not I don't miss it enough to switch back to it because I don't really do a lot of layout-intensive stuff. Like my handbooks are very simple. It's a paragraph and then a centered image, and then a paragraph and then a centered image. But I've done newsletters in the past, like my ComputerFAQs newsletter. And I used WordPerfect and it was much better for layout. And then I switched to Word sometime around I'm gonna say 2000 or so. And the difference was stark. WordPerfect was much better at layout.
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