Hi,

I inserted a text field. This text field should always be as wide as the
page it is placed on i.e. ranging from the left margin to the right
margin. How can I accomplish this? Until now I only see a possibility to
explicitly set the width of the text field. And incidently, how can I
find the exact width of the page anyway inorder to set that value as the
width of my text field?

System: Word 2000, Windows XP Home

Thanks!

Insert the text formfield in the cell of a one column table whose width is
the page width.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Scott Steiner" wrote in message
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Hi,

I inserted a text field. This text field should always be as wide as the
page it is placed on i.e. ranging from the left margin to the right
margin. How can I accomplish this? Until now I only see a possibility to
explicitly set the width of the text field. And incidently, how can I find
the exact width of the page anyway inorder to set that value as the width
of my text field?

System: Word 2000, Windows XP Home

Thanks!

Doug Robbins - Word MVP schrieb:
Insert the text formfield in the cell of a one column table whose width is
the page width.


But now how do I make the textfield span 100% over the width of the one
column table?

I know you are saying that you want it to span the width of the page, but
what are you really wanting to do?

The text field will take up whatever room is required by the data that is
entered into it.

--
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

"Scott Steiner" wrote in message
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP schrieb:
Insert the text formfield in the cell of a one column table whose width
is the page width.


But now how do I make the textfield span 100% over the width of the one
column table?

Doug Robbins - Word MVP schrieb:
I know you are saying that you want it to span the width of the page, but
what are you really wanting to do?

I want to have a decorated heading that automatically adapts to and
spans the width of the page. Basically it should look like a narrow bar
that has the heading text written in it and that has a certain
background colour.

But I think I got it now! I just dropped the text field completely and
simply used a 1x1 table like you proposed and entered the heading in the
cell of the table.

It seems that tables automatically span the width of the page, right? At
least it looks like it, I tried to alter the page margins and the table
altered its size accordingly.


The text field will take up whatever room is required by the data that is
entered into it.

A table cell won't be necessary if all you need is a border and some
background color; you can apply this to the paragraph itself via
FormatBorders and Shading.

There are times when a table is useful for positioning text, though:
For example, if you want the first body text below the heading to
start at a fixed vertical distance (regardless of the number of text
lines occupied by the heading), you can put the heading in a table
cell whose height is fixed.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Scott Steiner" wrote in message
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I want to have a decorated heading that automatically adapts to and
spans the width of the page. Basically it should look like a narrow
bar
that has the heading text written in it and that has a certain
background colour.

But I think I got it now! I just dropped the text field completely
and
simply used a 1x1 table like you proposed and entered the heading in
the
cell of the table.

It seems that tables automatically span the width of the page,
right? At
least it looks like it, I tried to alter the page margins and the
table
altered its size accordingly.


The text field will take up whatever room is required by the data
that is
entered into it.

Stefan Blom schrieb:
A table cell won't be necessary if all you need is a border and some
background color; you can apply this to the paragraph itself via
FormatBorders and Shading.
[...]

Excellent tip, thanks! I guess that is the fastest and most flexible
solution, exactly what I was looking for! :-)

Glad I could help.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Scott Steiner" wrote in message
. ..
Stefan Blom schrieb:
A table cell won't be necessary if all you need is a border and
some
background color; you can apply this to the paragraph itself via
FormatBorders and Shading.
[...]

Excellent tip, thanks! I guess that is the fastest and most flexible
solution, exactly what I was looking for! :-)