Position a custom-positioned anchored object, Positioned anchored object – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Prevent Manual Positioning
Preview
box with a plus sign (+).
Ensures that you can’t move the anchored object by dragging or nudging it on the page.
Displays the position adjustments on the page as you make them.
Position a custom-positioned anchored object
Note the following when using the Anchored Object Options dialog box to position custom-positioned anchored objects.
The custom position options include four main options: The two Reference Point proxies and the X and Y Relative To menus. These options
all work together to specify the object’s location. For instance, what you choose for X Relative To and Y Relative To determines what the
Anchored Position Reference Point represents—it could be a text frame, a text line within a column, or an entire page. The following image
represents how you can change the location of the object by choosing a different reference point while leaving the X and Y Relative To
options unchanged.
Changing the location of the anchored object (X Relative To set to Text Frame; Y Relative To set to Line (Baseline))
A. Choosing the lower right point on the Anchored Object proxy and left center point on Anchored Position proxy. B. Changing Anchored
Object proxy point to upper left corner and leaving the Anchored Position proxy point at center left C. Leaving the Anchored Object proxy at
top left and changing Anchored Position proxy point to center right
To create an anchored object that maintains its position on the page (such as the top left corner) as text reflows and moves only when the
text reflows to another page, anchor the object to the page margins or page edges. For example, set both X Relative To and Y Relative To to
Page Margin, click the top left reference point for the object
and the top left reference point for the page item
. As the text reflows, the
object remains in the top left corner, within the page margins. Only when the text line containing the anchor flows to another page does the
object move—to the top left corner of the next page.
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