"Allow Overlap" in "Format Drawing Canvas", Layout, Advanced

[nomadreid]

When formatting a drawing canvas in Microsoft Word 2007, one box to click or unclick (by default, it is selected) when one goes to the Advanced settings of Layout is "allow overlap." Overlap of what?

 

[QuantumQuest]

When formatting a drawing canvas in Microsoft Word 2007, one box to click or unclick (by default, it is selected) when one goes to the Advanced settings of Layout is "allow overlap." Overlap of what?

"Allow overlap" is for allowing pictures with the same wrapping style to overlap or not (checked or unchecked respectively). If it is unchecked pictures will push each other to prevent overlap.

 

[nomadreid]

Thanks, QuantumQuest. Hm, overlapping pictures, with one blocking part of the other, would be annoying (that has already occurred when I had it checked), so I guess unless I line them up perfectly, the safest is to uncheck it. "Push" I presume means create a separation between the frames of the canvases.

 

[QuantumQuest]

You just have to experiment a little bit in order to have the result you want

 

[nomadreid]

Indeed, with Microsoft Word apparently attempting to compete with quantum physics as the most convoluted phenomenon on earth, I do a lot of experimenting