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Having a fixed text box on each page
1. In Word 2007 I would like to have the Alphabet Sidebar text box appear on
every page and remain in the same place on a page no matter what changes I make to the page's text that's not in the text box. Now, sometimes the text box jumps down to the next page when I change the non-textbox text. 2. How can I position the Alphabet Sidebar text box so that it's on the right side of the page rather than the left? -- Howard |
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On Wed, 7 May 2008 10:40:01 -0700, Howard
wrote: 1. In Word 2007 I would like to have the Alphabet Sidebar text box appear on every page and remain in the same place on a page no matter what changes I make to the page's text that's not in the text box. Now, sometimes the text box jumps down to the next page when I change the non-textbox text. 2. How can I position the Alphabet Sidebar text box so that it's on the right side of the page rather than the left? If the contents of your Alphabet Sidebar are the same on every page, anchor it in the header and position it in the margin wherever you want it. To do this, first click the outermost edge of the sidebar and cut it to the clipboard. Double-click in the header area to open it. Paste in the sidebar, and drag it to wherever you want it (including the right margin). See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/AnchorToHeader.htm for some background. If the contents change from page to page, then the sidebar must be anchored in the regular text. You can't entirely prevent it from moving to the next page when the text to which it's anchored changes in length, but you can minimize that. Again click the outermost edge of the sidebar, right-click it, and choose Format Text Box. In the dialog, click the Layout tab and click the Advanced button. In the second dialog, in the Horizontal section choose Alignment and set it to Right relative to Page; in the Vertical section, click the Absolute option. If the paragraph to which the sidebar is anchored (the one that contains the cursor at the time you insert the sidebar) moves to the next page, the sidebar will also move. There is no way to "fasten" the sidebar to a particular page. You would have to manually move the anchor to text that's still on the original page. (In Office button Word Options Display, check the box for "Object anchors". An anchor icon will appear in the margin next to the anchor paragraph, and you can drag that icon to another paragraph.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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-- Howard "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 7 May 2008 10:40:01 -0700, Howard wrote: 1. In Word 2007 I would like to have the Alphabet Sidebar text box appear on every page and remain in the same place on a page no matter what changes I make to the page's text that's not in the text box. Now, sometimes the text box jumps down to the next page when I change the non-textbox text. 2. How can I position the Alphabet Sidebar text box so that it's on the right side of the page rather than the left? If the contents of your Alphabet Sidebar are the same on every page, anchor it in the header and position it in the margin wherever you want it. To do this, first click the outermost edge of the sidebar and cut it to the clipboard. Double-click in the header area to open it. Paste in the sidebar, and drag it to wherever you want it (including the right margin). See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/AnchorToHeader.htm for some background. If the contents change from page to page, then the sidebar must be anchored in the regular text. You can't entirely prevent it from moving to the next page when the text to which it's anchored changes in length, but you can minimize that. Again click the outermost edge of the sidebar, right-click it, and choose Format Text Box. In the dialog, click the Layout tab and click the Advanced button. In the second dialog, in the Horizontal section choose Alignment and set it to Right relative to Page; in the Vertical section, click the Absolute option. If the paragraph to which the sidebar is anchored (the one that contains the cursor at the time you insert the sidebar) moves to the next page, the sidebar will also move. There is no way to "fasten" the sidebar to a particular page. You would have to manually move the anchor to text that's still on the original page. (In Office button Word Options Display, check the box for "Object anchors". An anchor icon will appear in the margin next to the anchor paragraph, and you can drag that icon to another paragraph.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Jay, The contents of the text box varies by page. In your description of how to handle that situation, you wrote "If the contents change from page to page, then the sidebar must be anchored in the regular text. You can't entirely prevent it from moving to the next page when the text to which it's anchored changes in length, but you can minimize that." Can you tell me more about why text box content can move to the next page when the anchoring text changes in length? What is the relationship between text box content and the length of its anchoring text? Thanks. |
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Jay,
Thanks for the response. Please ignore my other reply. After I wrote it I saw that you had answered my question. |
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On Wed, 7 May 2008 19:45:01 -0700, Howard
wrote: Jay, The contents of the text box varies by page. In your description of how to handle that situation, you wrote "If the contents change from page to page, then the sidebar must be anchored in the regular text. You can't entirely prevent it from moving to the next page when the text to which it's anchored changes in length, but you can minimize that." Can you tell me more about why text box content can move to the next page when the anchoring text changes in length? What is the relationship between text box content and the length of its anchoring text? Thanks. Technically, the anchor 'point' is the top left corner of the paragraph containing the anchor. The sidebar must always be on the same page as the anchor point. So it isn't the length of the anchor paragraph that matters, but whether the beginning of the paragraph gets shifted to the next or previous page. That can happen because of changes in the amount of material that precedes the anchor paragraph. The length of the text box in the sidebar can be anything from one line to the entire depth to the bottom of the page, but no more than that -- extra text will disappear below the bottom but won't flow onto the next page. If you need to make a continuation, that will have to be done manually. In a pair of ordinary text boxes, you can create a link to send the overflow of the first box to the second. That isn't possible for Alphabet Sidebars because there's a content control inside the text box. If necessary, though, you could remove the content controls and just put the text in the text box itself, and then linking would be possible. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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