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How Do I Control a Text Box Attachment Point?
I'm using Word 2003. When I format a text box, one of the properties
of a text box is "Move object with text", but I can find no way to influence which text the box moves with. Is there any way to control which text a text box is attached to? -TC |
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How Do I Control a Text Box Attachment Point?
If you display object anchors, then when you select the text box, you will
see which paragraph it is anchored to. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TC" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003. When I format a text box, one of the properties of a text box is "Move object with text", but I can find no way to influence which text the box moves with. Is there any way to control which text a text box is attached to? -TC |
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How Do I Control a Text Box Attachment Point?
Floating Text boxes are graphic objects which are attached (anchored) to the
first line of a paragraph. Select the Text Box & you'll see the anchor symbol at the left end of the line to which the box is anchored. [You may need to have the non-printing characters (¶) displayed in order for the anchor to be visible.] Depending on the options set in the document you can drag the anchor to attach the box to a different paragraph. This information may be useful: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrawingGraphics.htm HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/14/09 11:34 AM, in article , "TC" wrote: I'm using Word 2003. When I format a text box, one of the properties of a text box is "Move object with text", but I can find no way to influence which text the box moves with. Is there any way to control which text a text box is attached to? -TC |
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How Do I Control a Text Box Attachment Point?
On Jun 14, 10:27*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
If you display object anchors, then when you select the text box, you will see which paragraph it is anchored to. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "TC" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003. When I format a text box, one of the properties of a text box is "Move object with text", but I can find no way to influence which text the box moves with. Is there any way to control which text a text box is attached to? -TC Thanks. I didn't know about displaying object anchors. That helps. I know that feature is as good as I'm going to get from Word, but it seems poorly designed. Since text boxes are clearly attached to character positions, not lines, it is confusing and unbeneficially imprecise to show the anchor next to a line instead of showing it in the exact character position. Why not simply put the anchor inline with the text, like every other proofing character? -TC |
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How Do I Control a Text Box Attachment Point?
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:06:36 -0700 (PDT), TC
wrote: On Jun 14, 10:27*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you display object anchors, then when you select the text box, you will see which paragraph it is anchored to. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "TC" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003. When I format a text box, one of the properties of a text box is "Move object with text", but I can find no way to influence which text the box moves with. Is there any way to control which text a text box is attached to? -TC Thanks. I didn't know about displaying object anchors. That helps. I know that feature is as good as I'm going to get from Word, but it seems poorly designed. Since text boxes are clearly attached to character positions, not lines, it is confusing and unbeneficially imprecise to show the anchor next to a line instead of showing it in the exact character position. Why not simply put the anchor inline with the text, like every other proofing character? -TC The text box is anchored to the upper left corner of the paragraph that shows the anchor symbol, not to any specific character. -- 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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On Jun 14, 1:56Â*pm, CyberTaz wrote:
Hi TC; snip. On 6/14/09 3:06 PM, in article , "TC" wrote: Since text boxes are clearly attached to character positions, not lines snip I don't understand where you're coming from here €¹ floating Text Boxes clearly are *not* attached to character positions :-) If you set their Layout attribute to In Line with Text rather than having Text Wrapping imposed (floating) they are treated as a character in the line... But that's the major distinction between floating graphic objects and In Line graphic objects. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac I didn't mean to start a debate about this, but it really looks to me like floating text boxes are attached to character positions. If you try to anchor a text box to, for instance, line 2 of a paragraph, then insert some text into line 1, the anchor symbol will move down to line 3 as soon as the inserted text pushes the text box's attachment point down to line 3. The text box clearly follows a character position, not a paragraph or a line. Jay Freedman says a text box can be anchored to the upper left corner of the paragraph, which is not a character position. However, "the upper left corner of the paragraph" sounds exactly like a character position to me -- the position between the carriage return and the first character of the paragraph. I continue to believe that text boxes are attached to character positions, and I assert that it would make more sense to show each anchor symbol in its inline position instead of showing it alongside the line containing that position. -TC |
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How Do I Control a Text Box Attachment Point?
By default, the vertical position of a text box is an absolute position
relative to (below) Paragraph (and the horizontal position is absolute right of Column). You can change the vertical position to be absolute relative to Line, but only by going to the Format | Text Box | Layout | Advanced dialog (and the setting will still be relative to the top line of the paragraph). Just dragging the text box will not move the anchor from the top line of the paragraph, nor can you move the anchor except to another paragraph. Changing the setting to Line does allow you to move the anchor to a different line without moving the text box; to move the text box to that position, you have to return to the Advanced Layout dialog and change the setting to 0". You can also set the horizontal position relative to a specific character on the line. The only "advantage" I can see to any of this for most text boxes is that it makes the effect of dragging the anchor even more unpredictable than before. If you want a very small text box to move with the text, your best bet is to make it inline. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TC" wrote in message ... On Jun 14, 1:56 pm, CyberTaz wrote: Hi TC; snip. On 6/14/09 3:06 PM, in article , "TC" wrote: Since text boxes are clearly attached to character positions, not lines snip I don't understand where you're coming from here €¹ floating Text Boxes clearly are *not* attached to character positions :-) If you set their Layout attribute to In Line with Text rather than having Text Wrapping imposed (floating) they are treated as a character in the line... But that's the major distinction between floating graphic objects and In Line graphic objects. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac I didn't mean to start a debate about this, but it really looks to me like floating text boxes are attached to character positions. If you try to anchor a text box to, for instance, line 2 of a paragraph, then insert some text into line 1, the anchor symbol will move down to line 3 as soon as the inserted text pushes the text box's attachment point down to line 3. The text box clearly follows a character position, not a paragraph or a line. Jay Freedman says a text box can be anchored to the upper left corner of the paragraph, which is not a character position. However, "the upper left corner of the paragraph" sounds exactly like a character position to me -- the position between the carriage return and the first character of the paragraph. I continue to believe that text boxes are attached to character positions, and I assert that it would make more sense to show each anchor symbol in its inline position instead of showing it alongside the line containing that position. -TC |
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