Picture properties bug in Word 2010 Macro Recorder

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A little back-story: I'm recreating some documents from PDFs (a bunch of Open University math textbooks that were supplied in printed format, and downloadable PDFs - except the PDFs are just images and as such are not searchable, highlight-able or able to be hyperlinked in any meaningful way). So I OCR'd the files which is OK for the text blocks, but garbles the formulae and diagrams. I've got a decent part of the way through the first textbook, matching fonts and creating styles, but I had a bright idea - why don't I export the PDF files as TIFF images, and as I'm doing a page I'll set the TIFF file as the page background, which should make it easier to match the layout.

The best option, I decided, would be to record a macro that would allow me to pick a file, size it to fit the page and set it to go behind the text. Should be relatively painless... right? Wrong. I click the record macro button, name it and set a button. I click insert... Picture and browse to the file. I try to right click on the image. Nothing. No context menu appears at all (it seems I can't get a context menu anywhere - not just on the picture). So I click the Ribbon Picture tab, and then the "Advanced Layout" arrow at the bottom right of the Size section. Click the middle "Text Wrapping" tab, and select "Behind Text". Click OK. Word promptly crashes and asks me to send an error report (which I do - M$ might as well work for their money). I tried a new document, different images, different PC. Same each time.



It seems you cannot change the text wrapping property of an image while recording a macro (actually, it seems that just opening and then closing the Advanced Layout window will cause Word to crash). Surely I can't have been the only person to run into this problem?

Thanks in advance for any help!