By default, Word inserts textboxes in such a way that they don't move as you play with the body text around them. You cannot prevent them from being moved and have them accessible, however.

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Paul Edstein
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Thanks for replying.
Sometimes when I add an image into the page it shift the text book along before I have chance to format it to "in front of text" is there a way to do this before the image hits the page?