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Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes.
I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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I've replied to the other posting.
-- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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Why in the world are you not just using the table itself, with rows set to
an exact height and columns to a preferred width and auto resizing disabled? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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1) How do I disable auto resizing?
2) If the row is an exact height and the column a preferred width and auto resize is disabled, what happens when text is too long to fit in the cell? Won't it be cut off? I want it to continue into the next cell down. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why in the world are you not just using the table itself, with rows set to an exact height and columns to a preferred width and auto resizing disabled? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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You cannot wrap text from cell to cell in a table. So you are placing a Text
Box over two cells so that you can enter text across two cells? Why not merge the two cells instead? But that still won't work because if there is too much text, it has nowhere to go. But I am totally baffled as to why you are using Dragon speech to text and trying to fill either a table cell or a Text Box. Please tell us what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to create a fill in form or what? Terry "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... 1) How do I disable auto resizing? 2) If the row is an exact height and the column a preferred width and auto resize is disabled, what happens when text is too long to fit in the cell? Won't it be cut off? I want it to continue into the next cell down. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why in the world are you not just using the table itself, with rows set to an exact height and columns to a preferred width and auto resizing disabled? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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Because text cannot wrap from cell to cell in a table is why I want to use
text boxes. I do NOT want to merge the cells because I WANT the lines between the cells. Okay, here's what I am trying to do: I have a form, part of which contains a 7x21 table, that must be filled with text. Until now, the text was WRITTEN into the form as the intended user cannot type. Now the user wants to used Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter the data. The lines on the table must remain. The text must wrap as she speaks from line to line in one column preserving the underlying table lines. I created text boxes and cleared the fill and lines but the alignment is driving me crazy since it does not respond properly to the arrow keys or the mouse with or without using Control and Alt. I am trying to avoid measuring each columns vertical and horizontal placement precisely as I am not sure how accurately I can do it. Also, it seems ridiculous that the movement of text boxes and drawing objects is so bizarre. Is there a way for me to paste a picture of the form here? "Terry Farrell" wrote: You cannot wrap text from cell to cell in a table. So you are placing a Text Box over two cells so that you can enter text across two cells? Why not merge the two cells instead? But that still won't work because if there is too much text, it has nowhere to go. But I am totally baffled as to why you are using Dragon speech to text and trying to fill either a table cell or a Text Box. Please tell us what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to create a fill in form or what? Terry "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... 1) How do I disable auto resizing? 2) If the row is an exact height and the column a preferred width and auto resize is disabled, what happens when text is too long to fit in the cell? Won't it be cut off? I want it to continue into the next cell down. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why in the world are you not just using the table itself, with rows set to an exact height and columns to a preferred width and auto resizing disabled? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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You can disable auto resizing using Table Properties | Table | Options, but
that won't help in your situation as you have further described it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... 1) How do I disable auto resizing? 2) If the row is an exact height and the column a preferred width and auto resize is disabled, what happens when text is too long to fit in the cell? Won't it be cut off? I want it to continue into the next cell down. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why in the world are you not just using the table itself, with rows set to an exact height and columns to a preferred width and auto resizing disabled? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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Let me think about that one for a while...
Terry "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Because text cannot wrap from cell to cell in a table is why I want to use text boxes. I do NOT want to merge the cells because I WANT the lines between the cells. Okay, here's what I am trying to do: I have a form, part of which contains a 7x21 table, that must be filled with text. Until now, the text was WRITTEN into the form as the intended user cannot type. Now the user wants to used Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter the data. The lines on the table must remain. The text must wrap as she speaks from line to line in one column preserving the underlying table lines. I created text boxes and cleared the fill and lines but the alignment is driving me crazy since it does not respond properly to the arrow keys or the mouse with or without using Control and Alt. I am trying to avoid measuring each columns vertical and horizontal placement precisely as I am not sure how accurately I can do it. Also, it seems ridiculous that the movement of text boxes and drawing objects is so bizarre. Is there a way for me to paste a picture of the form here? "Terry Farrell" wrote: You cannot wrap text from cell to cell in a table. So you are placing a Text Box over two cells so that you can enter text across two cells? Why not merge the two cells instead? But that still won't work because if there is too much text, it has nowhere to go. But I am totally baffled as to why you are using Dragon speech to text and trying to fill either a table cell or a Text Box. Please tell us what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to create a fill in form or what? Terry "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... 1) How do I disable auto resizing? 2) If the row is an exact height and the column a preferred width and auto resize is disabled, what happens when text is too long to fit in the cell? Won't it be cut off? I want it to continue into the next cell down. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why in the world are you not just using the table itself, with rows set to an exact height and columns to a preferred width and auto resizing disabled? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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I would suggest that you position and size the textbox by using the Format
Text Box dialog and for the position, click on the Advanced button on the Layout tab. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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I'm just another Word "user" so someone more knowledgeable may correct this
if I'm wrong, but... Is it necessary to use a table at all? Sounds like what you really want is columns, which will "wrap" to the next column. To force the column-ized text to a specific length on the page (i.e., table row height) Can you use section breaks (continuous) instead of table rows? "Guy Lydig" wrote: Because text cannot wrap from cell to cell in a table is why I want to use text boxes. I do NOT want to merge the cells because I WANT the lines between the cells. Okay, here's what I am trying to do: I have a form, part of which contains a 7x21 table, that must be filled with text. Until now, the text was WRITTEN into the form as the intended user cannot type. Now the user wants to used Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter the data. The lines on the table must remain. The text must wrap as she speaks from line to line in one column preserving the underlying table lines. I created text boxes and cleared the fill and lines but the alignment is driving me crazy since it does not respond properly to the arrow keys or the mouse with or without using Control and Alt. I am trying to avoid measuring each columns vertical and horizontal placement precisely as I am not sure how accurately I can do it. Also, it seems ridiculous that the movement of text boxes and drawing objects is so bizarre. Is there a way for me to paste a picture of the form here? "Terry Farrell" wrote: You cannot wrap text from cell to cell in a table. So you are placing a Text Box over two cells so that you can enter text across two cells? Why not merge the two cells instead? But that still won't work because if there is too much text, it has nowhere to go. But I am totally baffled as to why you are using Dragon speech to text and trying to fill either a table cell or a Text Box. Please tell us what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to create a fill in form or what? Terry "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... 1) How do I disable auto resizing? 2) If the row is an exact height and the column a preferred width and auto resize is disabled, what happens when text is too long to fit in the cell? Won't it be cut off? I want it to continue into the next cell down. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why in the world are you not just using the table itself, with rows set to an exact height and columns to a preferred width and auto resizing disabled? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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I almost forgot... to mimic the lines (cell borders), use WordArt lines.
formatted as anything other than "in line with text" they should stay in place as the columns fill in with text. "Guy Lydig" wrote: Because text cannot wrap from cell to cell in a table is why I want to use text boxes. I do NOT want to merge the cells because I WANT the lines between the cells. Okay, here's what I am trying to do: I have a form, part of which contains a 7x21 table, that must be filled with text. Until now, the text was WRITTEN into the form as the intended user cannot type. Now the user wants to used Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter the data. The lines on the table must remain. The text must wrap as she speaks from line to line in one column preserving the underlying table lines. I created text boxes and cleared the fill and lines but the alignment is driving me crazy since it does not respond properly to the arrow keys or the mouse with or without using Control and Alt. I am trying to avoid measuring each columns vertical and horizontal placement precisely as I am not sure how accurately I can do it. Also, it seems ridiculous that the movement of text boxes and drawing objects is so bizarre. Is there a way for me to paste a picture of the form here? "Terry Farrell" wrote: You cannot wrap text from cell to cell in a table. So you are placing a Text Box over two cells so that you can enter text across two cells? Why not merge the two cells instead? But that still won't work because if there is too much text, it has nowhere to go. But I am totally baffled as to why you are using Dragon speech to text and trying to fill either a table cell or a Text Box. Please tell us what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to create a fill in form or what? Terry "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... 1) How do I disable auto resizing? 2) If the row is an exact height and the column a preferred width and auto resize is disabled, what happens when text is too long to fit in the cell? Won't it be cut off? I want it to continue into the next cell down. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why in the world are you not just using the table itself, with rows set to an exact height and columns to a preferred width and auto resizing disabled? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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My original question: Can someone please explain the seemingly random
movement of textbooks or drawing objects when moved using the mouse or the arrow keys. I still do not have an answer to this. In regard to the previous posts in this thread: I would like to thank everyone for your responses. Doug, I explained in an earlier post that I was trying to avoid measuring each column's vertical and horizontal position which is why I did not want to use the Advanced button on the Layout tab of the Format Text Box dialog box. I solved the problem like this: After I created the table, I zoomed so the entire table appeared on screen. After taking a screen shot, pasting in a new doc and cropping it as needed, I copied and pasted the picture in a Header in the document with the table. (Apparently, in a Header, pictures can take up the entire page but tables can only take up half a page.) Another strange Word anomaly. I then resized both "tables" so they were identical. In the real table, I removed all borders and text. Then I merged each column individually so each one wraps. DONE. I don't even want to look at this again. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I would suggest that you position and size the textbox by using the Format Text Box dialog and for the position, click on the Advanced button on the Layout tab. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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Textbox displacing text sounds like the box propertieslayout is "in-line
with text" - this could also explain the movement issues, b/c the box is "snapping" to a place where it is in-line with text (or would-be text, as in the case of a hard return used for spacing). If youused the "proper convention" for spacing between paragraphs (paragraph properties), the box won't sit in that blank space unless you have set it's properties to a specific distance relative to paragraph. "Guy Lydig" wrote: My original question: Can someone please explain the seemingly random movement of textbooks or drawing objects when moved using the mouse or the arrow keys. I still do not have an answer to this. In regard to the previous posts in this thread: I would like to thank everyone for your responses. Doug, I explained in an earlier post that I was trying to avoid measuring each column's vertical and horizontal position which is why I did not want to use the Advanced button on the Layout tab of the Format Text Box dialog box. I solved the problem like this: After I created the table, I zoomed so the entire table appeared on screen. After taking a screen shot, pasting in a new doc and cropping it as needed, I copied and pasted the picture in a Header in the document with the table. (Apparently, in a Header, pictures can take up the entire page but tables can only take up half a page.) Another strange Word anomaly. I then resized both "tables" so they were identical. In the real table, I removed all borders and text. Then I merged each column individually so each one wraps. DONE. I don't even want to look at this again. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I would suggest that you position and size the textbox by using the Format Text Box dialog and for the position, click on the Advanced button on the Layout tab. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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Lori,
Try creating a table with 5 columns and 3 rows. Then Insert a fairly narrow Text box OUT of the frame. Set the Layout to In Front of Text. Now try using the arrow keys to move the text box and you will get an idea what I mean. "Lori H." wrote: Textbox displacing text sounds like the box propertieslayout is "in-line with text" - this could also explain the movement issues, b/c the box is "snapping" to a place where it is in-line with text (or would-be text, as in the case of a hard return used for spacing). If youused the "proper convention" for spacing between paragraphs (paragraph properties), the box won't sit in that blank space unless you have set it's properties to a specific distance relative to paragraph. "Guy Lydig" wrote: My original question: Can someone please explain the seemingly random movement of textbooks or drawing objects when moved using the mouse or the arrow keys. I still do not have an answer to this. In regard to the previous posts in this thread: I would like to thank everyone for your responses. Doug, I explained in an earlier post that I was trying to avoid measuring each column's vertical and horizontal position which is why I did not want to use the Advanced button on the Layout tab of the Format Text Box dialog box. I solved the problem like this: After I created the table, I zoomed so the entire table appeared on screen. After taking a screen shot, pasting in a new doc and cropping it as needed, I copied and pasted the picture in a Header in the document with the table. (Apparently, in a Header, pictures can take up the entire page but tables can only take up half a page.) Another strange Word anomaly. I then resized both "tables" so they were identical. In the real table, I removed all borders and text. Then I merged each column individually so each one wraps. DONE. I don't even want to look at this again. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I would suggest that you position and size the textbox by using the Format Text Box dialog and for the position, click on the Advanced button on the Layout tab. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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Text Box Moving
sorry, it's working fine for me (Word 2007).
Maybe you can figure it out by playing with page layoutaligngrid settings? Personally I've never mastered working with the grid, but there are options there for "snap to other objects" and "snap to grid" so maybe someone knows how to utilize that feature(?) Sorry I couldn't be of help. "Guy Lydig" wrote: Lori, Try creating a table with 5 columns and 3 rows. Then Insert a fairly narrow Text box OUT of the frame. Set the Layout to In Front of Text. Now try using the arrow keys to move the text box and you will get an idea what I mean. "Lori H." wrote: Textbox displacing text sounds like the box propertieslayout is "in-line with text" - this could also explain the movement issues, b/c the box is "snapping" to a place where it is in-line with text (or would-be text, as in the case of a hard return used for spacing). If youused the "proper convention" for spacing between paragraphs (paragraph properties), the box won't sit in that blank space unless you have set it's properties to a specific distance relative to paragraph. "Guy Lydig" wrote: My original question: Can someone please explain the seemingly random movement of textbooks or drawing objects when moved using the mouse or the arrow keys. I still do not have an answer to this. In regard to the previous posts in this thread: I would like to thank everyone for your responses. Doug, I explained in an earlier post that I was trying to avoid measuring each column's vertical and horizontal position which is why I did not want to use the Advanced button on the Layout tab of the Format Text Box dialog box. I solved the problem like this: After I created the table, I zoomed so the entire table appeared on screen. After taking a screen shot, pasting in a new doc and cropping it as needed, I copied and pasted the picture in a Header in the document with the table. (Apparently, in a Header, pictures can take up the entire page but tables can only take up half a page.) Another strange Word anomaly. I then resized both "tables" so they were identical. In the real table, I removed all borders and text. Then I merged each column individually so each one wraps. DONE. I don't even want to look at this again. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I would suggest that you position and size the textbox by using the Format Text Box dialog and for the position, click on the Advanced button on the Layout tab. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Guy Lydig" wrote in message ... Please explain the seemingly inexplicable movement of text boxes. I have a table with 7 columns and 21 rows. I want to place a text box over each column and size and align it exactly with the underlying column. (We are planning on using Dragon Naturally Speaking to enter text and I want text to wrap properly without making the rows grow.) Why, oh why, when I use the mouse or the arrows to move the text box by clicking its border first, does the text box have a mind of its own. Sometimes when I press the down arrow it goes down and sometimes it goes up. If I use the mouse to move it up/down a fraction of an inch, it sometimes moves much more. I have tried using the Advanced Settings but I clearly don't know what I am doing--and the ? is less than helpful. Also, sometimes the text box displaces text in the table while other times it does not. If someone can help me understand this behavior, I would be extremely grateful. |
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