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Default Locking a text box?

You've already been referred to
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/AnchorToHeader.htm, which increasingly
sounds like what you need.

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"Rasmus" wrote in message
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Many thanks for your reply
Is it possible to do something else? Can you possibly replace the box with
something else?

My wish is to get a "sider", lol :-) (Not a header /footer)

"CyberTaz" wrote:

That can't realistically be done. As Stefan wrote, a floating text box is
always anchored to a paragraph. If you delete the paragraph you delete
the
text box. Word documents are a text based structure, not object oriented,
so
there are no 'pages' on which to fix floating objects.

The only viable workaround is to add additional section breaks in order
to
create a separate Header for that one page section & put the text box in
that Header... But even that is dependent on the existence of the section
&
the content of the document. Ergo: Usually more trouble than it's worth.

You're looking for page layout capability & Word is not a page layout
application. You might consider using Publisher or something comparable
for
documents that require absolute positioning of objects independent of
text.

Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 1/22/10 5:55 AM, in article
, "Rasmus"
wrote:

I want my text box to become a permanent part of the document. So if I
delete
the remaining text, the text box stays. A bit like the header and
footer.

"Rasmus" wrote:

Hello ...

I have a text box on the right side of my document. My problem is that
it
moves depending on the remaining text. Can I in any way lock the box
so that
it will always be in the same place no matter how the remaining text
forms
themselves.

Thanks in advance, Rasmus


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