When I anchor a table in the header, the header expands to the height of the
table, thus bumping/starting the body text way way down the page. Is there a
way around this?



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I would suggest anchoring your "tabs" to the header so they will repeat on
every page. One easy way to set this up is to create a tall, narrow wrapped,
borderless table in the margin. In each section, fill the appropriate table
cell for the tab in that section.

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"Dr.Frenzy" wrote in message
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Sorry for length & several questions; I'll do my best to explain.

Sev'l chapters, all saved as indiv. documents. Now copying them 1@time
into
master draft (no, not Master Document.) First, check against template for
clean styles/formats. When all text for 1st 6 chapters in master doc, now
insert "sidebars" ("emphasis" txtbxs: excerpts frm body text), anchor to
relevant paragraphs. Last, insert marginal "tab" txtbxs (/not/ formatting
tabs ... like a file tab, or "thumb tab" in right margin.) These txtbxs
are
aligned relative to page; placed ~.2" outside right margin, lined up from
bottom of top margin and proceed down right margin; vertical text
direction.
Ex: "Section I" txtbx positioned at 7.45 x 1, "Chapter 1" txtbx at 7.45 x
1.8, "Chapter Title" txtbx at 7.45 x 2.82. These marginal boxes float over
text (not that there's any in the margin to float over, but more to the
point
shouldn't be affected by text flow), are not layed out in table, *are*
anchored (to page, yes? Like to (0,0)?).

Can't figure out how to make these textboxes part of "template" or other
layout, so process is: lay out first "tab" txtbx on first page of the
chapter; do all formatting (color, border, position, etc.); Copy; go to
ea.
subsequent page and Paste. Page Down, click on page, Ctrl+V, repeat.
Because
of tiling "feature" in Paste, ea. new box shifts position slightly on ea.
page. So when done, I go back thru chapter page@time, Ctrl+click ea. to
select all; on last select I right-click, Format Txtbx, enter same
position
for all. All jump to where they should.

Per Subject line, "random" txtbxs show their text /onscreen/ but don't
print. Now the fun part: I go to Cut a non-printing page's box, it shows
up
in Clipbd with no text! OK, so I'll go copy a "good one" from another
page;
can't! No rt-clk to get dotted border. Can only get the diag.line border
Edit
Txt. When I *get* Edit txt border, I can now rt-clk to get menu, but
Cut/Copy
functions now greyed out. Any attempt to get dotted border on *any* txtbox
now impossible, including main Edit menu.

If I close out of doc, then reopen, I get these features back ... once. So
I
can make a Copy of a "good one", go to a "bad one" (now that I made a
"Copy"
the Cut/Copy features are now greyed) and though I can't Cut, I can
Delete;
then Paste the good one (Paste is never greyed.) Then I have to close the
document and repeat.

Obviously some bug? Scanned for viruses on all docs, nothing. Tried a
"Compare and Merge" between an older "good" version and the new one, can't
find what went wrong ... but /did/ notice there are seemingly random
instances of "Asian (Chinese) PRC" font encoding in Style Defs.

Also, even tho anchored to page, not paragraphs, some "sidebar" inline
boxes
jump. Moving these sidebar boxes back where they belong makes *margin*
baxes
jump! Even tho not anchored to text.

1) Are any of my actions causing the non-printing error?
2) How can I find all instances of non-Latin encoding so I can replace?
They
all show up under Normal; if I show Formats in Use I don't find them.
Going
to Reveal Formatting works, but I'd have to move the cursor thru the text
one
character at a time before finding isolated instances of the Asian
encoding.
3) How, other than "clicking around" in the grey area "off the page" can I
find "bumped/lost" txtbxs? I've clicked around outside page, found hidden
txtbxs that way (pointer changes to the multi-arrow "target") but there
must
be a better way.

The document is huge. Do I have to start from scratch??? Auughhh!