How to prevent floated images in MS-Word from jumping around

"What you need to do is check what the position of your picture is. Word uses an ""Anchor"" to determine what the location of the picture is attached to. If the picture is anchored to a particular page, then the text can move or float around it. If the anchor is connected to a particular paragraph, then the picture will move together with the text if new text is inserted above that paragraph - but not if the new text is within that paragraph, between the anchor location and the picture position.

Whether anchors are displayed or not is an option. Go to Word Options --> Display --> Always show these formatiing marks on the screen --> Object anchors - and put a checkmark next to that line to always see the anchor.

Alternately, go to the Home tab, in the Paragraph group there is a latin Pie symbol (¶). Once you do that you will see all the formating marks, including the anchor for the picture, once you click on it.

First drag the picture to reposition it relative to the text to where you want to leave it, then drag the anchor to a spot in the text where you wish to anchor it. The beginning of the preceding paragraph may be a good spot."

"I haven't used Word on a Mac, but just looked at screenshots and it is pretty similar but you may have to use your initiative a bit.

Insert your picture, then either right click or go to the ""Format"" ribbon section and look for ""Wrap Text"" then choose the option ""In front of text"".

With this selected, the words will fill around the text."

"If all these methods don't work and your pictures still jump, cut and paste your pics into PowerPoint (where pictures and text boxes are so well behaved) and paste them into your Word doc again!

Works like a charm! No more problems.

Pictures may need reformatting so text can wrap around, but that is child's play!"
"If all these methods don't work and your pictures still jump, cut and paste your pics into PowerPoint (where pictures and text boxes are so well behaved) and paste them into your Word doc again!

Works like a charm! No more problems.

Pictures may need reformatting so text can wrap around, but that is child's play!"

"Open your Word document.
Right-click the picture and click ""Size and Position"".
Click the ""Text Wrapping"" tab.
Click ""Square"", ""Tight"", or ""Through"" to wrap the text around the edges of the image. ""Square"" wraps text as if the image is a solid rectangle. ""Tight"" wraps the text around the image, ignoring transparencies adjacent to the left and right sides of the image. ""Through"" ignores all transparencies in the image, wrapping text into the middle of the object as well as the sides.
Click ""Top and Bottom"" to prevent text on either side of the image. Text automatically wraps from above the image to immediately below it.
Click ""Behind"" to place the image behind the text. Click ""In Front Of"" to place it in front of the image. ""Behind"" and ""In Front Of"" don't wrap text.

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