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Have you ever placed a graphic in your document, only to find that you can see only a small portion of the bottom of it? The cause of this problem, believe it or not, lies in your paragraph formatting. When you insert an in-line graphic, it inherits the style of the surrounding text. This can cause problems when the style uses fixed line spacing, (for example, "Exactly 14 pt") because the image is forced to this line height as well.
To fix this problem, follow these steps after you have the graphic inserted in your document:
When line spacing is set to Single (which is what these steps do), Word automatically uses the height of the tallest element in each line as the height of the line. In the case of your graphic, there is a very good chance that it is the tallest item. By changing to single line spacing, the line on which the graphic is located can expand to its full height.
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2014-12-29 11:45:39
Washington, USA
Surendera, try this-it worked for me:
On the Home tab, click the little drop-down arrow in the Paragraph group. Once the Paragraph formatting box, find the Spacing section. Note the number of points in the After section, but change it to zero (0) and click OK.
Then, click in the next paragraph and open the Paragraph formatting box again. Change the Before setting in that paragraph to the same as the After setting that you removed from the previous one.
Alternately, you can right-click the graphic and choose Wrap Text > More Layout Options (at the bottom of the pick list). Once the Layout box opens, select "Tight".
If that doesn't do what you want, reopen the Layout Options and choose from the "Wrap text" group. I recommend "Right", "Left", or "Both sides", but you may want to play around with it and see what gives you the effect you are after.
2014-12-29 05:15:57
Surendera M. Bhanot
Thanks Lij J. This only solves a part of the problem. I want the whole paragraph in symmitry with the whole text of theat paragraph as also of the document, mo matter how tiny the graphics get in the process. Thanks any way!!
2014-12-28 19:41:14
Liz J
Surendera, if the graphic is in a paragraph without any text, I make a style that I call 'fig para' with a height of, say, 'At least 12 points'. The 'At least' selection allows the paragraph leading (line spacing) to expand to fit the tallest element, in this case, the graphic. I don't know if this would help with line spacing in a paragraph that includes both graphics and text; graphics in my reports are always separate from the text.
This separate style also allows me to specify 'Keep with next', which is handy for keeping the figure title and the figure on one page.
2014-12-28 06:01:52
Surendera M. Bhanot
Its okay. But by doing so the line spacing of the rest of the lines of the paragraph gets at odd with the lines in which the graphics appear.
Is there the way so that the graphics contracts down an adjust s to to the line height so that the summitry of the lines in the paragraph remains intact as if its a paragraph without graphics.
One way is to reset the height of the graphic to that of line height or a little less than line height.
Is their any better way of doing this.
2014-12-27 09:44:11
Maryland, USA
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