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Text reflow vs. Page layout based
I was doing some reading on MS Word and the article indicated that it was
text reflow software, not page layout based. Can someone provide some definition and insight into what that means? Hope this isn't to much of a basic question. Thanks. |
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Text reflow vs. Page layout based
In Word, when you create a document, you start typing in the document body.
As you continue typing and fill a page, your text automatically continues to the next page. If you add text in the middle of what you've typed, everything below spills over to following pages as needed. The entire document is a continuous text stream. You can insert text boxes and graphics and wrap text around them, but every such object on a page is anchored to the text and will move with it; you can't anchor it to a specific page. In Publisher, on the other hand, you can't type text until you have inserted a text box on the page. When that text box is full, you have to create a new text box (on the next page, for example). You can link the text boxes so that text flows back and forth between them almost the way it does in Word, but you also have the option of containing text and other page elements on a single page. You can add, remove, and rearrange some pages without disturbing others because they're not integrally connected the way pages in Word are. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Randy" wrote in message ... I was doing some reading on MS Word and the article indicated that it was text reflow software, not page layout based. Can someone provide some definition and insight into what that means? Hope this isn't to much of a basic question. Thanks. |
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Text reflow vs. Page layout based
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:43:00 -0700, Randy
wrote: I was doing some reading on MS Word and the article indicated that it was text reflow software, not page layout based. Can someone provide some definition and insight into what that means? Hope this isn't to much of a basic question. Thanks. In a program such as Publisher, which is page layout software, the "page" exists as an independent container. You can put a text box or a graphic in a particular place on a particular page, and it stays there. In Word, text boxes and graphics and other objects are "anchored" to a particular paragraph. If that paragraph moves because you edited the text, the text box or graphic moves, too. There is no page "container" independent of the text; page contents are continually recalculated based on the contents and what information the printer driver supplies. That's the essential difference. There are exceptions -- for example, you can tell Word to keep an object at a particular location on the page; but if the anchor paragraph moves to another page, the object will also move to the other page. An object cannot be anchored to a paragraph that isn't on the same page. Another consequence of this is that in Word you can't put an object on a page that doesn't contain a text paragraph, and you can't "flow" text around a full-page picture. In a page layout program you can do that. -- 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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