Reply To: Custom anchoring grouped object

It sounds like, from your description, that you haven't pasted the group into your text. It will then be an inline object until you go into the Anchor menu and make it a custom anchored object. Done. Now what you can do is copy and paste the newly anchored group into a different text box and it will keep the same anchor settings. Or why not click on that group and give it an object style, a style that holds those anchor settings.

Now you have a group made up of a text box and a pic box that you can fill with new text and new pictures.