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align FL text to bottom right of text box
We are using Word here because it can be programmed for variable text. There
is a place in our document where there will sometimes be a logo and sometimes type spelling out an institution's name in upper and lower case. The type or logo needs to be positioned in relation to the bottom right of the page, but the client wants the type to be a flush left paragraph. In other words, if the institution's name is Microsoft Office, "Microsoft" would be on one line, "Office" would be on the next line. The M and the O would line up, flush left to each other (not flush left to the page or the column or whatever). Now the end of longest line of each institution (the "t" in "Microsoft" in this case) must be a certain distance from the right of the page, let's say ..5 in. The baseline of "Office" must be a certain distance from the bottom of the page, let's say .5 in. again. We actually figured out a way to do this with a table, but the programmers say they need it to be a text box. Can it be done? |
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You can create a textbox and then adjust the internal margins. Click Format
TextBox, select the TextBox, and set the right and bottom margins to .5". You can position your textbox by clicking on the Layout tab, select Square if you want text to wrap around the textbox, or select In front of text if you don't, and select the Right button under Horizontal alignment, which will bring the textbox to the right hand margin line. Then you can move the textbox down to the right hand corner. "Freelancer BJK" wrote: We are using Word here because it can be programmed for variable text. There is a place in our document where there will sometimes be a logo and sometimes type spelling out an institution's name in upper and lower case. The type or logo needs to be positioned in relation to the bottom right of the page, but the client wants the type to be a flush left paragraph. In other words, if the institution's name is Microsoft Office, "Microsoft" would be on one line, "Office" would be on the next line. The M and the O would line up, flush left to each other (not flush left to the page or the column or whatever). Now the end of longest line of each institution (the "t" in "Microsoft" in this case) must be a certain distance from the right of the page, let's say .5 in. The baseline of "Office" must be a certain distance from the bottom of the page, let's say .5 in. again. We actually figured out a way to do this with a table, but the programmers say they need it to be a text box. Can it be done? |
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SVC,
Thanks for taking the time to help us out! This problem is complex and I don't think I made it clear. There will be hundreds of these documents generated. The two-line text will vary greatly in length each time. Even though the text is left-justified, the end of the longest of the two lines (no matter how long or short) must automatically be a specified distance from the right of the page. This would be easy if the text were right-justified. The lines of text would just automatically extend to the left as needed. "SVC" wrote: You can create a textbox and then adjust the internal margins. Click Format TextBox, select the TextBox, and set the right and bottom margins to .5". You can position your textbox by clicking on the Layout tab, select Square if you want text to wrap around the textbox, or select In front of text if you don't, and select the Right button under Horizontal alignment, which will bring the textbox to the right hand margin line. Then you can move the textbox down to the right hand corner. |
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Try this to see if this helps:
Right click your text box, select Format text box, select the Text box tab. Deselect Word wrap text in AutoShape and select Resize AutoShape to fit text. This will let your text box expand to the left as you enter text and will grow the text box to match the length of the longest line of text in the box. "Freelancer BJK" wrote: SVC, Thanks for taking the time to help us out! This problem is complex and I don't think I made it clear. There will be hundreds of these documents generated. The two-line text will vary greatly in length each time. Even though the text is left-justified, the end of the longest of the two lines (no matter how long or short) must automatically be a specified distance from the right of the page. This would be easy if the text were right-justified. The lines of text would just automatically extend to the left as needed. "SVC" wrote: You can create a textbox and then adjust the internal margins. Click Format TextBox, select the TextBox, and set the right and bottom margins to .5". You can position your textbox by clicking on the Layout tab, select Square if you want text to wrap around the textbox, or select In front of text if you don't, and select the Right button under Horizontal alignment, which will bring the textbox to the right hand margin line. Then you can move the textbox down to the right hand corner. |
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SVC,
We appreciate your help. I tested your suggestion and with left-justified type the box expands to the right as the text gets longer. We need it to expand to the left even though the type is left-justified. We have found ways to make Word do many things that we didn't think it could do, but this may be asking too much of the program. I don't think I could do this in a page layout program (Quark, Pagemaker) or vector drawing program (Illustrator, Freehand) either. "SVC" wrote: Try this to see if this helps: Right click your text box, select Format text box, select the Text box tab. Deselect Word wrap text in AutoShape and select Resize AutoShape to fit text. This will let your text box expand to the left as you enter text and will grow the text box to match the length of the longest line of text in the box. "Freelancer BJK" wrote: SVC, Thanks for taking the time to help us out! This problem is complex and I don't think I made it clear. There will be hundreds of these documents generated. The two-line text will vary greatly in length each time. Even though the text is left-justified, the end of the longest of the two lines (no matter how long or short) must automatically be a specified distance from the right of the page. This would be easy if the text were right-justified. The lines of text would just automatically extend to the left as needed. "SVC" wrote: You can create a textbox and then adjust the internal margins. Click Format TextBox, select the TextBox, and set the right and bottom margins to .5". You can position your textbox by clicking on the Layout tab, select Square if you want text to wrap around the textbox, or select In front of text if you don't, and select the Right button under Horizontal alignment, which will bring the textbox to the right hand margin line. Then you can move the textbox down to the right hand corner. |
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Check one thing to see if this makes a difference.
Format Text Box, and on the Layout tab select any but In line with text as the Wrapping style and select Right as the Horizontal alignment. (If I select In line with text, I get the behavior you have described). "Freelancer BJK" wrote: SVC, We appreciate your help. I tested your suggestion and with left-justified type the box expands to the right as the text gets longer. We need it to expand to the left even though the type is left-justified. We have found ways to make Word do many things that we didn't think it could do, but this may be asking too much of the program. I don't think I could do this in a page layout program (Quark, Pagemaker) or vector drawing program (Illustrator, Freehand) either. "SVC" wrote: Try this to see if this helps: Right click your text box, select Format text box, select the Text box tab. Deselect Word wrap text in AutoShape and select Resize AutoShape to fit text. This will let your text box expand to the left as you enter text and will grow the text box to match the length of the longest line of text in the box. "Freelancer BJK" wrote: SVC, Thanks for taking the time to help us out! This problem is complex and I don't think I made it clear. There will be hundreds of these documents generated. The two-line text will vary greatly in length each time. Even though the text is left-justified, the end of the longest of the two lines (no matter how long or short) must automatically be a specified distance from the right of the page. This would be easy if the text were right-justified. The lines of text would just automatically extend to the left as needed. "SVC" wrote: You can create a textbox and then adjust the internal margins. Click Format TextBox, select the TextBox, and set the right and bottom margins to .5". You can position your textbox by clicking on the Layout tab, select Square if you want text to wrap around the textbox, or select In front of text if you don't, and select the Right button under Horizontal alignment, which will bring the textbox to the right hand margin line. Then you can move the textbox down to the right hand corner. |
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And why is it that you're not using a wrapped table cell instead?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Freelancer BJK" wrote in message ... SVC, We appreciate your help. I tested your suggestion and with left-justified type the box expands to the right as the text gets longer. We need it to expand to the left even though the type is left-justified. We have found ways to make Word do many things that we didn't think it could do, but this may be asking too much of the program. I don't think I could do this in a page layout program (Quark, Pagemaker) or vector drawing program (Illustrator, Freehand) either. "SVC" wrote: Try this to see if this helps: Right click your text box, select Format text box, select the Text box tab. Deselect Word wrap text in AutoShape and select Resize AutoShape to fit text. This will let your text box expand to the left as you enter text and will grow the text box to match the length of the longest line of text in the box. "Freelancer BJK" wrote: SVC, Thanks for taking the time to help us out! This problem is complex and I don't think I made it clear. There will be hundreds of these documents generated. The two-line text will vary greatly in length each time. Even though the text is left-justified, the end of the longest of the two lines (no matter how long or short) must automatically be a specified distance from the right of the page. This would be easy if the text were right-justified. The lines of text would just automatically extend to the left as needed. "SVC" wrote: You can create a textbox and then adjust the internal margins. Click Format TextBox, select the TextBox, and set the right and bottom margins to ..5". You can position your textbox by clicking on the Layout tab, select Square if you want text to wrap around the textbox, or select In front of text if you don't, and select the Right button under Horizontal alignment, which will bring the textbox to the right hand margin line. Then you can move the textbox down to the right hand corner. |
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Insert a single (borderless) table cell in your text box.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Freelancer BJK" wrote in message ... We are using Word here because it can be programmed for variable text. There is a place in our document where there will sometimes be a logo and sometimes type spelling out an institution's name in upper and lower case. The type or logo needs to be positioned in relation to the bottom right of the page, but the client wants the type to be a flush left paragraph. In other words, if the institution's name is Microsoft Office, "Microsoft" would be on one line, "Office" would be on the next line. The M and the O would line up, flush left to each other (not flush left to the page or the column or whatever). Now the end of longest line of each institution (the "t" in "Microsoft" in this case) must be a certain distance from the right of the page, let's say .5 in. The baseline of "Office" must be a certain distance from the bottom of the page, let's say .5 in. again. We actually figured out a way to do this with a table, but the programmers say they need it to be a text box. Can it be done? |
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Suzanne,
Thanks for your reply! I like your idea. I knew you could put a text box into a table, but I didn't know you could put a table into a text box. Unfortunately, the programmers don't feel they can make things work with tables. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Insert a single (borderless) table cell in your text box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org |
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My apologies. I neglected to mention that we are using Word 2003 on Hewlett
Packard machines running Windows 2000 Professional. "Freelancer BJK" wrote: We are using Word here because it can be programmed for variable text. There is a place in our document where there will sometimes be a logo and sometimes type spelling out an institution's name in upper and lower case. The type or logo needs to be positioned in relation to the bottom right of the page, but the client wants the type to be a flush left paragraph. etc. |
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