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From: skyer@quantime.co.uk (Susannah Skyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More Word gripes
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Date: 23 Feb 90 11:53:19 GMT
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In article <90052.210048Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu> Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott D. Camp) writes:

>Recently, I saw a post where the person was asking about anchoring a graphic
>to a page location and then having Word flow text around it.  
>
>To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible with Word 4.0.  

Not so. Check out the Position command, under the Format menu.
Admittedly, this is not the easiest command to use (it's not
select-and-drag, nor is it WYSIWYG) but it allows you to put any 
graphic or paragraph in general wherever you want it w/i the printable
area of the page.

The text automatically wraps around if you position something w/i
text.

(Personally, I prefer using PageMaker to do things like this, since
it has more options, but as you realize, Word is not a complete DTP
package.)

>Also, is there a way to tell Word to automatically number a new document with
>the next logical page number from the previously printed document.  
>Again, I keep my chapters in separate files.  

When you keep your chapters in separate files, you do have to use
the Next File feature to keep printing the next one, and then you'll
have to manually change the page numbers for each chapter.

However, Word has another feature for this that's better (I think):
make each chapter into a separate section.

Using the Section command, you can choose where you want each section
to start (e.g., on an odd page every time) and you can assign different
headers and footers to each section. This way, you can have distinct
chapters and let Word worry about the pagination.

Good luck!

Susannah Skyer
skyer@quantime.co.uk