I particularly like the use of PageWidth and PageHeight. I'm going to try some of those ideas in updating the macros I put together yesterday from bits I found on the Internet. Surely I can't have been the only person to run into this problem? It seems you cannot change the text wrapping property of an image while recording a macro (actually, it seems that just opening and then closing the Advanced Layout window will cause Word to crash). I tried a new document, different images, different PC. Word promptly crashes and asks me to send an error report (which I do - M$ might as well work for their money). Click the middle "Text Wrapping" tab, and select "Behind Text". So I click the Ribbon Picture tab, and then the "Advanced Layout" arrow at the bottom right of the Size section. No context menu appears at all (it seems I can't get a context menu anywhere - not just on the picture). I click the record macro button, name it and set a button. The best option, I decided, would be to record a macro that would allow me to pick a file, size it to fit the page and set it to go behind the text. I've got a decent part of the way through the first textbook, matching fonts and creating styles, but I had a bright idea - why don't I export the PDF files as TIFF images, and as I'm doing a page I'll set the TIFF file as the page background, which should make it easier to match the layout. So I OCR'd the files which is OK for the text blocks, but garbles the formulae and diagrams. A little back-story: I'm recreating some documents from PDFs (a bunch of Open University math textbooks that were supplied in printed format, and downloadable PDFs - except the PDFs are just images and as such are not searchable, highlight-able or able to be hyperlinked in any meaningful way).
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