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Anchoring and Text. As a page layout tool, QuarkXPress 8 simply can not be beat. There are extensive text and graphics tools available for quick and efficient layout. You can move items around the page or from page to page using the Item Tool but sometimes this flexibility is exactly what you don't want. You need to place graphics at a particular point in the story and have them stay there. A good example of this is a parts catalog where the picture of the item is described in the text. This is easy to do and in this movie I will show you how to anchor items. Let's get started by doing a bit of prep work so that we have components with which to work. First, draw a text box and choose Jabber from the Utilities Menu. Now draw a PictureBox and import a picture. You may anchor a single item or a group of items. If you wish to anchor a group, draw more than one item, select them all and press the keyboard shortcut Command G on a Mac or Control G on Windows. As you are defining the item or group to be anchored, keep in mind that it must be narrower than the text box in which you wish to anchor. With the Item Tool, cut or copy the item. Switch to the Text Content Tool and click exactly where you wish to paste the item and choose Paste. If the item disappears along with the balance of the text, then the item was too wide for the box. You can either widen the text box or you can undo the paste, make the item or group narrower and repeat the process. Now that the item is anchored, in some ways it behaves as text and you interact with it using the Text Content Tool. In other ways it behaves as an item and you interact with it using the Item Tool. This item will flow with the text as you make edits. Try inserting your cursor above the anchored item and adding more text. The anchored item will move as you do and maintain its placement in the text flow. This is a great way to have pictures and captions embedded in the text at the point of reference and because the items remain editable, you could create a library item of the grouped picture box and captioned text box and insert them wherever needed. Once inserted, import the correct picture and type the caption. With the Item Tool or Content Tool, I can set the position of the item to align with the set or align with the baseline of the text. With the Item Tool I can scale it. I can set the runaround. As text I can set the text alignment. I can import a new picture into a PictureBox. If it's a group and contains a line, I can set the width of the line with either the Text Content or Picture Content Tool. Now that you understand how to anchor, let's look at some different ways to anchor. This movie contains Work Files that are available on the course CD and for download by VTC Online University members. To get started, download the file titled Anchored Items. In this example I will anchor this item above the paragraph. I start by cutting the picture with the Item Tool. Change tools with the keyboard shortcut by pressing T and then inserting my cursor. This time before I paste I'll add a return and then cursor up. This will result in having my item in a paragraph by itself so that I can adjust the paragraph spacing and other paragraph attributes. In this example I've created what looks to be two columns by using tabs. At the beginning of each line I press the Tab Key and set a tab stop here so that it's wide enough to accommodate my images. This is a paragraph so I maintain the indent by using both the tab stop and in indent-here character. I'll zoom in really closely so that you can see how this works. It's called an indent-here character because it literally instructs the text that the remaining lines of the paragraph should indent to here. Now I will cut and paste my item into the first tab stop. It's created a bit of a mess in the text below but that's easy to fix by reformatting. In this final example I want my graphic to flush right. First, cut the picture with the Item Tool, then switch to the Text Content Tool, insert your cursor here after the part number, hold down your Option Key on a Mac or the Alt Key on Windows and press the Tab Key. Once you've done this the cursor should be blinking at the far-right margin. Paste the cut item. Anchoring enables you to embed the items in the text chain so that the will flow with the text and maintain positioning. This will reduce production time in projects where you must place graphics and reduce the possibility of errors.