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There may be times when you have a need to replace text in your document with a graphic. For instance, you might be working on a marketing document and need to replace all instances of your company name with the company logo. This is simple enough to do in Word by following these steps:
Figure 1. The Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
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2016-07-10 01:05:02
Bruce Glassco
The problem with this is that the graphic when its pasted in doesn't seem to retain any of the formatting of the text it replaced; specifically, it is no longer inline, which means if the text it replaces was centered, the graphic is now left justified.
2015-07-22 04:22:35
Steve Taylor
Excellent. I was trying to make this happen recently and was unsuccessful. Thanks for a great tip.
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