Microsoft Word is stupid [solved]

Reznik

The Story

- I have a 164 page .doc in Word that contains images and text and really should not have been done in Word in the first place.
- These are storyboards, so the images are on top and the text is in text boxes below. there are 4 image/text box combos per page
- I have to remove the blank image .jpgs and replace them with the completed storyboard .jpgs. Each blank is actually 2 image boxes side by side, so I will replace 2 images per page with 4 separate images
- Every time I delete the blanks, the formatting gets fucked and I end up with 6 or 8 text boxes squeezing on to the page (and fucking up the page behind it, somehow). When I insert the new images, the formatting gets even more fucked. When I try to push the text boxes back to their proper place, there is more format fuck-uppery. Basically no matter what I do, this whole document becomes a big fucking mess.

So.

Is there any way to say to Word 'when I delete something, keep the other shit in exactly the same place it is in'? I basically don't want Word to do anything at all, because it is awful and screws everything up. I want to move all the shit around manually. If I have to keep working like this I'm probably going to strangle the person whose idea it was to do this in Word.

I'm using the Office 2003 version.

Dunadan019

you can insert a page break to keep everything on the same page

control + enter.

do that before you delete any of the images and it should keep the formating of the rest of the doc.

you may have to delete a line after you do it depending on the spacing.

Reznik

Yes, it worked!

Thank you, Dunadan019. You are a gentleman and a scholar.