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Can text flow from one cell to another?
I want to make a template for my middle school students to type in a magazine
article they wrote. I've created a template already using text boxes & image place holders, but I would like to use tables because I feel that it's "cleaner." the problem is, I don't know how to make text "flow" from one cell to another like I can do with text boxes. I don't want to merge cells, because I want the text to be in small columns (like a magazine or newspaper). Tables would make it easier for me to design the page because I have much more control of the borders & shading. I searched the knowledge base for similar questions and I couldn't find one. I would think this would be a common thing people would consider doing, or am I just missing one simple option change. Thanks for any assistance! |
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Text cannot flow between table cells; if you want to use them, you would
have to manually cut and paste text from one cell to the next. Actually, Word has limited capabilities for newsletter formatting. Linked text boxes is the closest you can get to "dividing" the page into rectangular areas, each of with has newspaper style columns. The best solution would be to use Publisher, I think. Unlike Word, it was designed to be page layout software. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Enstrique" wrote in message ... I want to make a template for my middle school students to type in a magazine article they wrote. I've created a template already using text boxes & image place holders, but I would like to use tables because I feel that it's "cleaner." the problem is, I don't know how to make text "flow" from one cell to another like I can do with text boxes. I don't want to merge cells, because I want the text to be in small columns (like a magazine or newspaper). Tables would make it easier for me to design the page because I have much more control of the borders & shading. I searched the knowledge base for similar questions and I couldn't find one. I would think this would be a common thing people would consider doing, or am I just missing one simple option change. Thanks for any assistance! |
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Hi Enstrique,
You could put text boxes inline into the table cells, and link them. But that's pretty cumbersome because the text boxes won't resize automatically if you change the table cell/column widths later on. If you want to try anyway, you could use a macro to set the width of the text boxes to the width of the cells they are in. Of course, that'll work best if the table cells *have* definite widths and heights. The macro assumes you'll do the margins/padding through the table cell padding, not through text box margins. That way, it will be a little easier to see and navigate the table, which else would be completely hidden by the text boxes. Dim myShape As Shape For Each myShape In ActiveDocument.Shapes If myShape.Type = msoTextBox And _ myShape.WrapFormat.Type = wdWrapInline And _ myShape.Anchor.Information(wdWithInTable) Then ' set textbox margins to zero; ' do the margins with cell padding instead: With myShape.TextFrame .MarginLeft = 0 .MarginRight = 0 .MarginTop = 0 .MarginBottom = 0 End With With myShape.Anchor.Cells(1) myShape.Width = .Width _ - .LeftPadding _ - .RightPadding If .Height wdUndefined Then myShape.Height = .Height ' - .TopPadding _ ' - .BottomPadding ' (not sure why the difference width/height?) End If End With End If Next myShape Regards, Klaus "Stefan Blom" wrote: Text cannot flow between table cells; if you want to use them, you would have to manually cut and paste text from one cell to the next. Actually, Word has limited capabilities for newsletter formatting. Linked text boxes is the closest you can get to "dividing" the page into rectangular areas, each of with has newspaper style columns. The best solution would be to use Publisher, I think. Unlike Word, it was designed to be page layout software. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Enstrique" wrote: I want to make a template for my middle school students to type in a magazine article they wrote. I've created a template already using text boxes & image place holders, but I would like to use tables because I feel that it's "cleaner." the problem is, I don't know how to make text "flow" from one cell to another like I can do with text boxes. I don't want to merge cells, because I want the text to be in small columns (like a magazine or newspaper). Tables would make it easier for me to design the page because I have much more control of the borders & shading. I searched the knowledge base for similar questions and I couldn't find one. I would think this would be a common thing people would consider doing, or am I just missing one simple option change. Thanks for any assistance! |
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