[st]

Earlier versions of Word had ability to create floating containers to put text & pictures in (not sure about it's name in English). Was that feature dropped in Word 2003?

[Graham Mayor]

Do you mean a text box? Word 2003 has those. You can cause any object to
'float' by setting its layout property to anything other than in-line with
text.

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st wrote:
Earlier versions of Word had ability to create floating containers to
put text & pictures in (not sure about it's name in English). Was
that feature dropped in Word 2003?

[st]

Actually that container could have textboxes and other autoshapes inside, so it was not a simple textbox. It was really useful for annotating illustrations...

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Do you mean a text box? Word 2003 has those. You can cause any object to
'float' by setting its layout property to anything other than in-line with
text.

st wrote:

Earlier versions of Word had ability to create floating containers to
put text & pictures in (not sure about it's name in English). Was
that feature dropped in Word 2003?

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Sandy,

It depends on which feature you were using.

MS Draw was replaced by its built in equivalent, the MS Office Drawing Canvas
Insert=Picture=New Drawing.

There is also the MS Word Picture Editor, which appears if you right click on a graphic and see 'Picture Object' as a choice.

A textbox, table cell or other Autoshape can also hold different types of content.

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"st" wrote in message ...
Actually that container could have textboxes and other autoshapes inside, so it was not a simple textbox. It was really useful for
annotating illustrations...
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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