I am having problems with textboxes moving into the margins and then being
unable to be moved when editing documents - please help

Invest a little time to learn what's going on with the Layout tab on the
Format TextBox dialog, including the options on the Advanced tab. The
position is affected by the form of positioning (in-line, square, tight, top
and bottom, etc), and by whether 'Allow overlap' is checked.


"fib74" wrote in message
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I am having problems with textboxes moving into the margins and then being
unable to be moved when editing documents - please help

I've had issues where the Absolute Postion field on the Advanced Layout |
Picture Postion field gets set to some ridiculous value like -9.89. Even when
I correct it, some movements of the graphics will cause Word to 'forget' that
value and put a 'garbage' value in the field, which cause the textbox to jump
to the top of the page.

Also if the TextBox gets too close to the top/bottom margin, Word seems to
try and reposition it, many times in ways that are unexpected.


"Jezebel" wrote:

Invest a little time to learn what's going on with the Layout tab on the
Format TextBox dialog, including the options on the Advanced tab. The
position is affected by the form of positioning (in-line, square, tight, top
and bottom, etc), and by whether 'Allow overlap' is checked.


"fib74" wrote in message
...
I am having problems with textboxes moving into the margins and then being
unable to be moved when editing documents - please help

In addition, you might want to check out this article, as the info in
it relates to TextBoxes as well as frames (more or less).

Understanding Frames and Anchors in Word
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=482

Good luck...

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:31:02 -0800, "fib74"
wrote:

I am having problems with textboxes moving into the margins and then being
unable to be moved when editing documents - please help

This can happen if Vertical Alignment is set to "Center" in Page
Setup. It is a bug. The easy work-around is either don't do centered
vertical alignment, or if you do, don't drag things.

Bob S



On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:01:05 -0800, "DocBrown"
wrote:

I've had issues where the Absolute Postion field on the Advanced Layout |
Picture Postion field gets set to some ridiculous value like -9.89. Even when
I correct it, some movements of the graphics will cause Word to 'forget' that
value and put a 'garbage' value in the field, which cause the textbox to jump
to the top of the page.

Also if the TextBox gets too close to the top/bottom margin, Word seems to
try and reposition it, many times in ways that are unexpected.


"Jezebel" wrote:

Invest a little time to learn what's going on with the Layout tab on the
Format TextBox dialog, including the options on the Advanced tab. The
position is affected by the form of positioning (in-line, square, tight, top
and bottom, etc), and by whether 'Allow overlap' is checked.


"fib74" wrote in message
...
I am having problems with textboxes moving into the margins and then being
unable to be moved when editing documents - please help