I just joined and I really hope one of the experts on this forum can help me! I have Office 2007 on a Dell laptop, no Vista, just XP. I was using Office for overlaying pics (or, I suppose, one could call them manips). It was working fine until a couple of weeks ago, it became impossible to put one photo on top of the other. The first inserted photo is fine, no problem. When I try to put the second photo over the first, it has a mind of its own and jumps all over, regardless where I attempt to put it. I've tried the "nudging" w/the arrow and that doesn't help either.

I'm at my wits end, to say the least and yes, I know I could use one of the other programs, but it is bugging the hell out of me as to why all of a sudden I have this problem. Any idea, or help....please!!!!

Try selecting the picture then selecting the 'Format' Tab and changing the 'Text Wrapping' option to 'In Front of Text'.

Does this help?

I tried the format and changed the text wrap, making sure each time to change everything back, but it still doesn't stay where I want it. I have read on occasion, that others have had this same problem occasionally, but I never came across any solution that worked and that's the only program I have a problem with. All others are working fine. I really appreciate everyone's help.

As I said, it's extremely frustrating because it had been working beautifully!

whs, I tried your suggestion and it definitely helped. The only problem was that the "transparent color" bar was greyed out and not accessible. Would there be any way around that?

Ok, I'm going to see if I can explain this so that it makes sense. When I overlay one picture over another in Word 2007, I've already "clean it up", so to speak, in Paint in order to erase certain parts that I don't want. When Word was working (LOL...talk about alliteration!)properly, I would be able to place that second picture over the first, click on "transparent color", and the background of the first picture would show thru the parts I'd already erased on the second pic. Does that make any sense at all? Anyway, when I tried your suggestion, it worked, but I couldn't use the transparent color feature.

*g* I hope I explained it clearly! Tx for your help!

Thanks so much for your time. I really appreciate it! I'll try the SFC and see if it works. I'm beginning to think that it's a hardward problem, unfortunately. I even installed a mouse because I thought that it could possibly be my touchpad which has been a little wanky lately, but even that didn't work. I'm going to put Office 2007 on the house computer and see if it works there. If it does, then I'll know what the problem is.
Thanks again!

@fmxv, I think I found a way to do what you want to do. It is a little tricky, but I will be glad to explain it (in length and with pictures) if you are still interested. But I am going to wait for your answer before I do a lot of work. Here is an example. (note: the overlay pic originally contained a lot more stuff).

OK fmxv, we would need about one hour together on the Forum so that we can get thru all the steps (one by one) and we also need to make a little system setting and download a free program. So let me know when you have an hour to spare (in Eastern Standard Time is OK - but note, I am 6 hours ahead of EST). And if I remember right, you said that you are on XP. So we will have to explore a few things because I have only Vistas.

I am in the process of making a tutorial about this method - a couple of other people were interested too. Since it is kind of involved and I like to use pictures, it will take a little while (maybe 10 days) before it is done. Then I can have it forwarded to you via the moderators - if you like.