Click the tick in the “Snap objects to grid when the gridlines are not displayed” to deselect it.

Head to the “Drawing Grid” dialog box again, by following the steps specified in last section.

And you can also turn off this option permanently. Method 3: Disable the Snap-to-grid Option PermanentlyĪnother way is to disable “Snap to” option so that objects won’t snap to grid. And this will apply to all your documents.

In the subsequent “Drawing Grid” dialog box, enter a small value in the “Horizontal spacing” and “Vertical spacing” boxes.

Select “Grid Settings” in the drop down list.

Switch to “Format” tab, and then click on “Align” drop down arrow, in the “Arrange” group.

Place your cursor on the text box, and then left click at it.

Since there is an invisible grid in our Word, one simple way is to minimize the horizontal and verticals spacing of the grid. Method 2: Reduce the Horizontal & Vertical Spacing of the Grids But note that this method will only turn off “snap to grid” temporarily.

Then use our mouse to drag the text box to the new position you want.īecause we have been hold the “Alt” key, the grid will not have effect on the movement of objects.

First, left click at the text box, and then hold down the“Alt”key on your keyboard.

Method 1: Hold Down “Alt” Key to Move the Object Preciselyįor example, we want to move the text box below to exactly where we want. In this article will mainly look at 3 ways to move the object to exactly the location where you want. But sometimes, we want to precisely control the placement of these objects. When you move a text box or a picture in Word, they seem to be snapping to the nearest intersection of lines in the grid. This article will talk about how to move objects with greater precision.

Sometimes you may want to fine tune object placement in Word.

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