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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2006Position Text Box in line with text
Hi, in Word v.X the positioning option "in line with text" is not available for text boxes. The workaround I found is to type my text, cut it and paste special as word object...  SignatureTobias Weber That's correct: A "Text Box" is a "Picture" and cannot be placed in the text layer. Use a "Frame" if you want text in a box in the text layer. A Word document is a three-layer sandwich: the text is the middle layer. There are two graphics layers, one behind the text and one in front of it. Text Boxes live in one or other of those. Look up "Frames" in the Help. The easiest way to create one is often to convert a Text Box into a frame :-) Cheers On 29/5/06 5:55 PM, in article towb-89AD46.09555629052006@individual.de, > Hi, > in Word v.X the positioning option "in line with text" is not available > for text boxes. The workaround I found is to type my text, cut it and > paste special as word object... SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 In article <C0A0FF21.39BA4%john@mcghie.name>, "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@mcghie.name> wrote: > That's correct: A "Text Box" is a "Picture" and cannot be placed in the > text layer. Use a "Frame" if you want text in a box in the text layer. For a text box converted to a frame Word v.X only offers wrapping "none" or "around", not "in line with text". > Look up "Frames" in the Help. The easiest way to create one is often to > convert a Text Box into a frame :-) The Help is necessary since that button is very well hidden... SignatureTobias Weber Yeah, well :-) If you have an object "In line with text", then the text *can't* wrap around it. Similarly, if you set the text wrapping to "None", the object is by definition *in line with the text*. Whether "over there" is north or south depends on where you are standing :-) Cheers On 30/5/06 1:09 AM, in article towb-B67C3E.17092429052006@individual.de, > In article <C0A0FF21.39BA4%john@mcghie.name>, > "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@mcghie.name> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > The Help is necessary since that button is very well hidden... SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 In article <C0A26008.39BF3%john@mcghie.name>, "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@mcghie.name> wrote: > If you have an object "In line with text", then the text *can't* wrap around Which is not what I want, anyway. > Similarly, if you set the text wrapping to "None", the object is by > definition *in line with the text*. "In line with text" is verbatim one of the options Word has for images. It's in the dialog box under the heading of "wrapping style". It makes the image behave like a character, that is adhere to paragraph settings like orphan control or horizontal alignement. I can also indent it with tabstops. Very useful for figures with description. This works for pasted objects, be it from Excel or Word itself. I still do not see a way to make a Text Box behave like that. Might be blind. SignatureTobias Weber Trust me, Tobias, John knows exactly how "Inline with text works" :-). And, as he explained, you *can't* make a Text Box inline with text because it doesn't and can't exist in the text layer of the document. However, as you've discovered, a frame won't do what you want either. "None" for a frame does not appear to be the same as "Inline with text"; it does remove the wrapping, but it doesn't make the frame function like a character either. I *think* the only way to get the effect you want will turn out to be this: Create the Text Box. Copy it. Go to Edit>Paste Special and click on Picture. The box will be inserted as a picture and you can change the layout to inline with text. The problem is, of course, that you can't change the contents of the picture like you could the text box. That's the best I can do. Maybe John will have another idea. Signature***Please always reply to the newsgroup!*** Beth Rosengard MacOffice MVP Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html> On 5/30/06 6:13 AM, in article towb-39C5F1.15131330052006@individual.de, >> If you have an object "In line with text", then the text *can't* wrap around > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I still do not see a way to make a Text Box behave like that. Might be > blind. Hi Tobias: Yep. You've got it. Get rid of the text box if you want the content "Inline with Text", or use a frame if you want text to behave like it's in a text box. Personally, I use the Insert>Object... Method myself to hold things together without using a text box (I rarely use text boxes: don't trust them...). That technique actually embeds an entire "Document" within the current document, and you can use this fact to do exciting things such as have same-named styles with completely different definitions. You cannot make a text box behave like you want: any more than you can make a pig fly: they're designed for different environments :-) It does occur to me that we haven't yet discovered what your end purpose is in doing this. Maybe if you tell us what you need to accomplish, we may be able to suggest a different approach that will work better. Cheers On 30/5/06 11:13 PM, in article towb-39C5F1.15131330052006@individual.de, > In article <C0A26008.39BF3%john@mcghie.name>, > "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@mcghie.name> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > I still do not see a way to make a Text Box behave like that. Might be > blind. SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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