I place six frames on a particular page. The frames will contain text eventually. Populating the page is a bear. It took me all day to get all six frames positioned. When I added one, another one wouild move, sometimes to another page. Sometimes, instead of moving, a frame would change to a long object that could not be deleted unless I aded some text, any text, selected the text and pressed delete. Finally got six frames arranged the way I wanted so I quit for the night.


This morning I started adding text. Again, they jumped all over the place or disappeared completley.
I am new to Word, attempting to learn. Have had WordPerfect for the last 20 years.
What would the experts do?

Bill

If your page layout is amenable to it, I'd suggest using a single table with 6 cells (or more if you need gaps between the content) rather than 6 frames. If you're going to persist with frames, however, I'd suggest grouping them once they're positioned correctly, so they'll only move as a group.

On a more general note, the positioning of floating objects is always unstable in a document where content ahead of them is subject to editing, because the edits can change where on the page - or even which page - the anchors for those objects are located.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I did use a table. Was able to place gaps between cells instead of more rows and columns. Thanks.

Bill