Mysterious Graphical Handling

Mysterious Graphical Handling

Microsoft Word has a handy feature for manipulating shapes and graphics in documents. When you've placed multiple graphical elements, you can group them so they stay together when you move them and remain the same relative size when you resize them.
But in Word 2007 this feature seems not to work. You can't select multiple graphical items, so there's no way to group them or determine which overlapping objects are in front of which others. !

It turns out that in Word 2007, there's an extra step. Before you start adding graphics you have to define a "Canvas" to hold them.
Click Insert -> Shapes -> New Drawing Canvas.
Add your pictures and shapes to the drawing canvas. Now you can group them, ungroup them, put one behind another, and so on—all the actions that you were accustomed to in Word 2003.


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