question on groups

I made a text box
added a photo to the layer
clicked the photo and said repel text
works as I wanted
added a line above and line below
tried to group all together
got an error saying can not group with an anchored photo?

I tried again = with a new section of text and photo with repel text
but then did not click anchor with text
this time I could make a group of the text, photo and line
(and now that the photo was grouped with the text, when I moved the group
the photo held its position in the text block)

is that just another quirk in the program?
or do I need to do something different
thanks

TD, when you Anchor an image to a Text Area, you create a Anchored Group of the image and the Text Area is outside that group so when you move the image, you can reposition it relative to the text (which is sensible). If you move the text the image sticks to the text.
That said, I do not get any error when grouping text above & below with a Repel image anchored to some other text.

Your second approach is only different in that the concept of Anchoring is not being used so the movement of text or image does not affect the other.

Acorn

i have no need to group items that gave an anchored image
just playing around
but for sure do get the error saying not permitted

thanks for feed back