Reply To: Custom anchoring grouped object

For those of you looking for this: here are the steps in anchoring an object outside the text frame (I got these from Ann-Marie Concepcion’s video at https://www.adobe.com/designcen…..id=vid0073 – the ONLY place I have found step by step directions…)

1. Select the object using Selection (black) arrow
2. >Edit>Cut (or Copy)
3. Place the Text Insertion bar in text (presumably at beginning)
4. >Edit>Paste The graphic acts like a text character. You can use Center etc on it; and you can apply text wrap to it. The object may jump around when you do this.
5. Immediately: R Click>Object>Anchored Object>Options
6. Under Position, choose Custom
7. Deselect Keep Within Top/Bottom Column Boundaries.
8. Click OK Hopefully the object now is back where it belongs.
9. Drag to wherever you want it.
10. Notice that a Y shows up where an object is anchored (turn on View>Hidden characters).

Now the problem is the “jumping around”. It often jumps completely out of sight, so it is impossible to get any menu that has Object on it so you can get to Options where you can re-set it as a custom object. After that, it behaves pretty well – that is, it becomes visible where it ought to be more or less and you can drag it.

Tim Hughes, thankyou for your answer. Are you saying there is a separate Anchor menu? I will have to check that. On the object style suggestions, I’ll try it and get back. Looks interesting. The whole purpose of all this, by the way was to be able to later insert or delete pictures/captions without having to move all the items separately. Attempts at insertion brought up new problems! Things didn’t move around quite as I had hoped.