I was chatting with occasional Hints editor Kirk McElhearn this morning, trying to figure out a Word 2008 image placement issue related to using the arrow keys to position the image. If you use the arrow keys alone, the image moves in large increments (10 pixels at a time, maybe?). For fine image movement control, Word 2008's help says this:
To move an object up, down, or sideways in small increments, click the object, hold down OPTION, and then press an arrow key.
However, this didn't seem to work -- holding Option and pressing any arrow key resulted in no movement at all. Yet Kirk had a document he was editing in Word 2008 whose images would move by fine amounts with Option and the arrow keys. When I tried on my local Mac, though, I had no such luck. After some digging on Microsoft's Word Forum, I ...

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