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Text Box options Tight wrap - What do these do?
Can anyone please tell me what the Textbox options Tight wrap settings on the
Line and Pages Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box do? I've fiddled with all sorts of boxes and text wraps and couldn't see them make any difference to the wrapping. Many thanks, Linda |
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Text Box options Tight wrap - What do these do?
Office MVP Beth Melton provides the following explanation:
These options are more for the paragraphs around a text box than the text box itself when you want the text in the surrounding paragraphs to wrap to the text in the box instead of the text box itself. The primary stipulation is the text box needs to have No Fill for both the Shape Fill and Shape Outline. Here are some steps to reproduce: - Add a large paragraph to a document - Add a text box - Add a couple lines of narrow text in the text box - Remove the Fill and Outline for the text box - Set the vertical and horizontal alignment for the text in the text box to Center. - Set the text box wrapping to Tight (keep the text box selected) - In the Paragraph dialog box, modify the Tight Wrap options, such as All. Result: The surrounding paragraphs wrap to the internal margins of the text instead of the boundaries of the 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. "LindaH" wrote in message ... Can anyone please tell me what the Textbox options Tight wrap settings on the Line and Pages Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box do? I've fiddled with all sorts of boxes and text wraps and couldn't see them make any difference to the wrapping. Many thanks, Linda |
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Text Box options Tight wrap - What do these do?
Great!
Excuse my ignorance, but how do you centre text vertically in a text box? Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Office MVP Beth Melton provides the following explanation: These options are more for the paragraphs around a text box than the text box itself when you want the text in the surrounding paragraphs to wrap to the text in the box instead of the text box itself. The primary stipulation is the text box needs to have No Fill for both the Shape Fill and Shape Outline. Here are some steps to reproduce: - Add a large paragraph to a document - Add a text box - Add a couple lines of narrow text in the text box - Remove the Fill and Outline for the text box - Set the vertical and horizontal alignment for the text in the text box to Center. - Set the text box wrapping to Tight (keep the text box selected) - In the Paragraph dialog box, modify the Tight Wrap options, such as All. Result: The surrounding paragraphs wrap to the internal margins of the text instead of the boundaries of the 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. "LindaH" wrote in message ... Can anyone please tell me what the Textbox options Tight wrap settings on the Line and Pages Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box do? I've fiddled with all sorts of boxes and text wraps and couldn't see them make any difference to the wrapping. Many thanks, Linda |
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Text Box options Tight wrap - What do these do?
Although Publisher offers this option, Word doesn't. The only efficient way
to do it in Word is to insert a single-cell table in the text box and vertically center the text in the table cell. I suspect, however, that this would prevent a tight wrap around the text. The other alternative is to center it manually (by eye) using Space Before. -- 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. "LindaH" wrote in message ... Great! Excuse my ignorance, but how do you centre text vertically in a text box? Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Office MVP Beth Melton provides the following explanation: These options are more for the paragraphs around a text box than the text box itself when you want the text in the surrounding paragraphs to wrap to the text in the box instead of the text box itself. The primary stipulation is the text box needs to have No Fill for both the Shape Fill and Shape Outline. Here are some steps to reproduce: - Add a large paragraph to a document - Add a text box - Add a couple lines of narrow text in the text box - Remove the Fill and Outline for the text box - Set the vertical and horizontal alignment for the text in the text box to Center. - Set the text box wrapping to Tight (keep the text box selected) - In the Paragraph dialog box, modify the Tight Wrap options, such as All. Result: The surrounding paragraphs wrap to the internal margins of the text instead of the boundaries of the 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. "LindaH" wrote in message ... Can anyone please tell me what the Textbox options Tight wrap settings on the Line and Pages Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box do? I've fiddled with all sorts of boxes and text wraps and couldn't see them make any difference to the wrapping. Many thanks, Linda |
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Text Box options Tight wrap - What do these do?
Thanks - that was the method I used, but thought I may have overlooked
something. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Although Publisher offers this option, Word doesn't. The only efficient way to do it in Word is to insert a single-cell table in the text box and vertically center the text in the table cell. I suspect, however, that this would prevent a tight wrap around the text. The other alternative is to center it manually (by eye) using Space Before. -- 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. "LindaH" wrote in message ... Great! Excuse my ignorance, but how do you centre text vertically in a text box? Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Office MVP Beth Melton provides the following explanation: These options are more for the paragraphs around a text box than the text box itself when you want the text in the surrounding paragraphs to wrap to the text in the box instead of the text box itself. The primary stipulation is the text box needs to have No Fill for both the Shape Fill and Shape Outline. Here are some steps to reproduce: - Add a large paragraph to a document - Add a text box - Add a couple lines of narrow text in the text box - Remove the Fill and Outline for the text box - Set the vertical and horizontal alignment for the text in the text box to Center. - Set the text box wrapping to Tight (keep the text box selected) - In the Paragraph dialog box, modify the Tight Wrap options, such as All. Result: The surrounding paragraphs wrap to the internal margins of the text instead of the boundaries of the 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. "LindaH" wrote in message ... Can anyone please tell me what the Textbox options Tight wrap settings on the Line and Pages Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box do? I've fiddled with all sorts of boxes and text wraps and couldn't see them make any difference to the wrapping. Many thanks, Linda |
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