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Moving Anchored Objects
As new text is added or deleted, the object moves as the text flows, but will always
maintain its new position relative to the anchor point. You can move an anchored graphic
by dragging on it as usual. This changes its position relative to the anchor point, but does
not move the anchor point, which remains visible at the end of the anchor symbol arrow
as you click/move the graphic.

If you want to move the anchor point to another location within the text, click and drag on
the anchor symbol again to create a new arrow and drag it to the new location.

If you cut and paste the text containing the caret mark, the anchored object is also cut
and pasted.

Viewing the anchor point
The anchor point of an anchored object is only visible if you click the anchored object in
the SELECTOR TOOL or click in the surrounding text area in the TEXT TOOL.

When you click in a region of text with the TEXT TOOL, it shows any anchors points within
an inverted 'T' symbol, and also draws an arrow from the anchor point to the anchor
symbol in the top left of each anchored object. So the easiest way to see all the anchor
points for any text is to click in it with the TEXT TOOL.

However, when you start to edit the text, the red caret, arrow and anchored symbol
temporarily disappear until you stop typing. If you are close to the anchor point, Designer
Pro displays the caret mark, along with an arrow pointing to the anchor symbol, to let you
know when you're close.

Removing an anchor
To remove an anchor from an object, right click it and choose ANCHOR TO TEXT again to
disable the option. Now when you click the object in the SELECTOR TOOL or in the text in
the TEXT TOOL, the anchor symbol is no longer displayed.

Embedding Graphics

If you take a graphic, a photo or other object you can paste it "embedded" into text. You
can control how the text is formatted around embedded objects, and have the object
resize automatically according to the width of its containing text area or column. You can
also embed graphics into repeating text - like that which appears in headers and footers
and have objects anchored to repeating text too.