I'm trying to make business cards in Word 2003 onto an Avery template, but am having a problem with inserting a graphic onto it. I would like a graphic centered on the right side with three lines of text right up against it. But whenever I insert the graphic, the lines scatter all over the card. I set the Word Wrap for tight but it does nothing. I went to the tutorial on Microsoft's site. They have instructions on business card but not with graphics. Have any of you ever done this? How did you do it?Whenever I need to tightly control the position of text and images in a document I insert them it textboxes. The textboxes can then be positioned independently.
Put the image in one box and the text in another. For better control, put each line of text in its own box, or even each word.
Set the textbox fill property to 'No Color' so it will be transparent and set the line color to 'No Color' so the outline doesn't show.Since you have Word 2003, that means you have Office 2003, right?  And, you have Publisher 2003, right?  I'd be using Publisher for business cards, not Word.  Try Publisher.  I think you'll find it is for flexible for creating business cards.No, Soybean, I don't have Office w/ Publisher; only Word.

I tried you method, Bromide, & made one card but can't copy & paste it onto all the other cards. How do you do it?I believe Word simply isn't going to do what you want to do.  To make business cards with Word, you need to use the LABELS feature and it simply does not work with inserted graphics.  I did try using Word's WordArt and that seems to work OK in a label; that would at least give you a way of of going beyond simple text.   

Here's an online way of creating business cards and it ACCOMMODATES graphics.  See http://www.degraeve.com/business-cards/.  You can also order business cards online for a low cost.  See http://www.vistaprint.com/business-cards-tabbed.aspx?rd=3&GP=4%2f23%2f2011+9%3a50%3a33+AM&GPS=1530581860&GNF=0&GPLSID=It is difficult to select multiple textboxes. You cannot simply click & drag as you can with text.

Select one textbox [make sure you’ve selected the box and not just its contents]and then, while HOLDING down the Shift key, click each of the other textboxes. If you has already made the backgrounds and borders of the boxes invisible you will have to guess where they are.

If one textbox is completely behind another you will have to first make it larger until PART of it extends beyond the one above so you can click on it. Or place the small textbox above the larger one.  [Select one of the textboxes, right-click on it and select Order> Bring to Front, Send to Back, Bring Forward or Send Backward.]

When you have them all selected, release the Shift key and use the standard Copy-Paste routine to paste them into each cell of the template.
I can't select any text box at all. If I could, I would have copied & pasted one box at a time.

From another forum I got the suggestion to create one document with graphics, another with text, then merge the two. I never did Merge Documents with cards before & their example wasn't quite what I had in mind. But it gave me the idea to make the two templates on file, then print each of them onto the same set of cards; just run the cards thru the printer twice.

Meanwhile I discovered an alternative on my own. I chose the landscape direction, that is with each card in the verticle position, with the graphic above the text, centered. That works & looks great. But I'd like another set with the cards in the horizontal position (the portrait direction), so will use the above idea.

Thank you all for taking your time to help me out.I am puzzled that your textboxes are not selectable.  Is this true whenever you use textboxes? Is it because the textbox is already formatted without visible outline? I have used this method in Word 2003's built-in business card template and it worked all right.

I have never tried merging documents and can offer no advice on that method. The concept of printing a page in multiple passes through the printer can be a work-around for an otherwise insoluble problem, but should not be necessary in this case unless all else fails.

I will mention one other tactic with textboxes that might work for you. First, composed your design by placing each image or text element in a textbox. Format each box with no fill color so that one box won’t hide the one behind, but do not make the outline invisible. This will LEAVE each box clearly visible while you arrange all the elements of the design. When finished, select all the boxes using the shift-click method, clicking on the outline of each box. [I hope this works for you.]

When all the boxes are selected at once, right-click on them and select Grouping> Group. This will lock all the boxes together as a single entity which will be easier to manage than individual boxes. Once grouped you can copy and paste the boxes all at once and position them more easily. You should still be able to right-click on the boxes and select Format Object…[the group is called an object.] Now you can remove the outline from all the boxes at once by selecting Line Color: No Line.