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How Do I insert text in a document full of tables and text boxes?
Hello everyone,
My problem is this: I have a document with a couple of text boxes and tables on one page and there is space at the bottom of the page that I would like to use. Word 2003 won't give me an "I-beam" when I click on the empty space at the bottom of the document. If I double-click enough times, Word takes me to the top of the document next to a text box. The reason why I need this is to force Word to continue on to the next page instead of me having to choose "new Page" which would create an entirely new document. I have Service Pack 2 already installed. Uhm . . . help! Thanks. |
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How Do I insert text in a document full of tables and text boxes?
Click on the Show/Hide button ¶ and after the table you should see a ¶
place the cursor before that and start typing. Or, use Ctrl+End and start typing. Ctrl+End will take you to the end of the document. Another thing that might be causing this problem is the Text Wrapping of the table. Place the cursor in the table and frpm the Tables menu, select Properties and set the Text wrapping to none. -- 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 "Cade Foster" Cade wrote in message ... Hello everyone, My problem is this: I have a document with a couple of text boxes and tables on one page and there is space at the bottom of the page that I would like to use. Word 2003 won't give me an "I-beam" when I click on the empty space at the bottom of the document. If I double-click enough times, Word takes me to the top of the document next to a text box. The reason why I need this is to force Word to continue on to the next page instead of me having to choose "new Page" which would create an entirely new document. I have Service Pack 2 already installed. Uhm . . . help! Thanks. |
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How Do I insert text in a document full of tables and text boxes?
I can't find this show/Hide button. Also, when I use Ctrl+End keyboard combo,
the I-beam does not move from its postition at the top of the document. Just to make things clear, I don't want to type anything into any of the text boxes nor tables in the document. I want to type in the "outside" space of those text boxes and tables "without" having to creat a new text box or table to do it. Thanks. "Cade Foster" wrote: Hello everyone, My problem is this: I have a document with a couple of text boxes and tables on one page and there is space at the bottom of the page that I would like to use. Word 2003 won't give me an "I-beam" when I click on the empty space at the bottom of the document. If I double-click enough times, Word takes me to the top of the document next to a text box. The reason why I need this is to force Word to continue on to the next page instead of me having to choose "new Page" which would create an entirely new document. I have Service Pack 2 already installed. Uhm . . . help! Thanks. |
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How Do I insert text in a document full of tables and text boxes?
What about the table wrapping?
-- 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 "Cade Foster" wrote in message ... I can't find this show/Hide button. Also, when I use Ctrl+End keyboard combo, the I-beam does not move from its postition at the top of the document. Just to make things clear, I don't want to type anything into any of the text boxes nor tables in the document. I want to type in the "outside" space of those text boxes and tables "without" having to creat a new text box or table to do it. Thanks. "Cade Foster" wrote: Hello everyone, My problem is this: I have a document with a couple of text boxes and tables on one page and there is space at the bottom of the page that I would like to use. Word 2003 won't give me an "I-beam" when I click on the empty space at the bottom of the document. If I double-click enough times, Word takes me to the top of the document next to a text box. The reason why I need this is to force Word to continue on to the next page instead of me having to choose "new Page" which would create an entirely new document. I have Service Pack 2 already installed. Uhm . . . help! Thanks. |
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How Do I insert text in a document full of tables and text boxes?
The Show/Hide ¶ is on the Standard toolbar. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+*.
If the document was created in an older version of Word, very likely the wrapping on the text boxes is None (equivalent to In Front of Text), which means that the text paragraph into which you could type is behind a text box. You'll need to change the wrapping of the text box to Square to get the text paragraph (indicated by ¶) out where you can type in it. -- 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. "Cade Foster" wrote in message ... I can't find this show/Hide button. Also, when I use Ctrl+End keyboard combo, the I-beam does not move from its postition at the top of the document. Just to make things clear, I don't want to type anything into any of the text boxes nor tables in the document. I want to type in the "outside" space of those text boxes and tables "without" having to creat a new text box or table to do it. Thanks. "Cade Foster" wrote: Hello everyone, My problem is this: I have a document with a couple of text boxes and tables on one page and there is space at the bottom of the page that I would like to use. Word 2003 won't give me an "I-beam" when I click on the empty space at the bottom of the document. If I double-click enough times, Word takes me to the top of the document next to a text box. The reason why I need this is to force Word to continue on to the next page instead of me having to choose "new Page" which would create an entirely new document. I have Service Pack 2 already installed. Uhm . . . help! Thanks. |
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How Do I insert text in a document full of tables and text boxes?
Doug,
You're a genius! When I selected the "table wrapping" to "around," the damn thing worked. that's what I call great tech support. Happy Holidays! "Cade Foster" wrote: Hello everyone, My problem is this: I have a document with a couple of text boxes and tables on one page and there is space at the bottom of the page that I would like to use. Word 2003 won't give me an "I-beam" when I click on the empty space at the bottom of the document. If I double-click enough times, Word takes me to the top of the document next to a text box. The reason why I need this is to force Word to continue on to the next page instead of me having to choose "new Page" which would create an entirely new document. I have Service Pack 2 already installed. Uhm . . . help! Thanks. |
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