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I am creating a form in Word 2003 using text boxes. Mu difficulty is that I
can not get the text to wrap in the box. If the text exceeds the size of the text box it will not wrap. I have gone into the properties window for the text box and specififed that I want the text to wrap - but it will not. ANy suggestions? |
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Right click the edge of the text box and choose Format Text Box. Click the
Text Box tab and ensure that "Word wrap text in AutoShape" is enabled. Take a look at Resize AutoShape to fit text as well, if you might find that option useful. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "David" wrote in message ... I am creating a form in Word 2003 using text boxes. Mu difficulty is that I can not get the text to wrap in the box. If the text exceeds the size of the text box it will not wrap. I have gone into the properties window for the text box and specififed that I want the text to wrap - but it will not. ANy suggestions? |
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Hi Herb,
Thanks for the reply. There appears to be two types of text boxes within Word. One is the text box that is pulled from the Draw button bar. The other is the one from the form design tool bar. The text box I have in question is the text Box pulled from the form design button bar. I see what you are talking about in requards to a regular text box. If you would like, I could send you the form I have been working on so you can see what I am talking about. David "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Right click the edge of the text box and choose Format Text Box. Click the Text Box tab and ensure that "Word wrap text in AutoShape" is enabled. Take a look at Resize AutoShape to fit text as well, if you might find that option useful. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "David" wrote in message ... I am creating a form in Word 2003 using text boxes. Mu difficulty is that I can not get the text to wrap in the box. If the text exceeds the size of the text box it will not wrap. I have gone into the properties window for the text box and specififed that I want the text to wrap - but it will not. ANy suggestions? |
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You have a least two threads in different groups on this topic. Please do
not multi-post. The 'text box' on the forms tool bar is not a text box, but a frame. Text in frames should wrap normally, however to constrain text a table is a better option as I responded in one of your other threads. There is also a control toolbox toolbar in Word. the controls on this toolbar are not compatible with on-line forms. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org David wrote: Hi Herb, Thanks for the reply. There appears to be two types of text boxes within Word. One is the text box that is pulled from the Draw button bar. The other is the one from the form design tool bar. The text box I have in question is the text Box pulled from the form design button bar. I see what you are talking about in requards to a regular text box. If you would like, I could send you the form I have been working on so you can see what I am talking about. David "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Right click the edge of the text box and choose Format Text Box. Click the Text Box tab and ensure that "Word wrap text in AutoShape" is enabled. Take a look at Resize AutoShape to fit text as well, if you might find that option useful. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "David" wrote in message ... I am creating a form in Word 2003 using text boxes. Mu difficulty is that I can not get the text to wrap in the box. If the text exceeds the size of the text box it will not wrap. I have gone into the properties window for the text box and specififed that I want the text to wrap - but it will not. ANy suggestions? |
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Graham,
My form consists of many frames only a couple of which need to wrap. For the sake of aesthetics I would like to use the frame (what I have been calling a text box) is it not possible to get the text to wrap? In the properties portion of the frame, it lists the function "wrap" to which I entered "true". Please advise €“ and thanks for your help thus far. Thanks "Graham Mayor" wrote: You have a least two threads in different groups on this topic. Please do not multi-post. The 'text box' on the forms tool bar is not a text box, but a frame. Text in frames should wrap normally, however to constrain text a table is a better option as I responded in one of your other threads. There is also a control toolbox toolbar in Word. the controls on this toolbar are not compatible with on-line forms. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org David wrote: Hi Herb, Thanks for the reply. There appears to be two types of text boxes within Word. One is the text box that is pulled from the Draw button bar. The other is the one from the form design tool bar. The text box I have in question is the text Box pulled from the form design button bar. I see what you are talking about in requards to a regular text box. If you would like, I could send you the form I have been working on so you can see what I am talking about. David "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Right click the edge of the text box and choose Format Text Box. Click the Text Box tab and ensure that "Word wrap text in AutoShape" is enabled. Take a look at Resize AutoShape to fit text as well, if you might find that option useful. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "David" wrote in message ... I am creating a form in Word 2003 using text boxes. Mu difficulty is that I can not get the text to wrap in the box. If the text exceeds the size of the text box it will not wrap. I have gone into the properties window for the text box and specififed that I want the text to wrap - but it will not. ANy suggestions? |
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Or he could be referring to just a Text Form Field.
-- 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. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You have a least two threads in different groups on this topic. Please do not multi-post. The 'text box' on the forms tool bar is not a text box, but a frame. Text in frames should wrap normally, however to constrain text a table is a better option as I responded in one of your other threads. There is also a control toolbox toolbar in Word. the controls on this toolbar are not compatible with on-line forms. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org David wrote: Hi Herb, Thanks for the reply. There appears to be two types of text boxes within Word. One is the text box that is pulled from the Draw button bar. The other is the one from the form design tool bar. The text box I have in question is the text Box pulled from the form design button bar. I see what you are talking about in requards to a regular text box. If you would like, I could send you the form I have been working on so you can see what I am talking about. David "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Right click the edge of the text box and choose Format Text Box. Click the Text Box tab and ensure that "Word wrap text in AutoShape" is enabled. Take a look at Resize AutoShape to fit text as well, if you might find that option useful. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "David" wrote in message ... I am creating a form in Word 2003 using text boxes. Mu difficulty is that I can not get the text to wrap in the box. If the text exceeds the size of the text box it will not wrap. I have gone into the properties window for the text box and specififed that I want the text to wrap - but it will not. ANy suggestions? |
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Discovery!
After entering design mode all one has to do is to select text box /frame / or text Form Fiels (whatever it is called) and select "true" for multiline and "true" for word wrap. Happy day! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Or he could be referring to just a Text Form Field. -- 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. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You have a least two threads in different groups on this topic. Please do not multi-post. The 'text box' on the forms tool bar is not a text box, but a frame. Text in frames should wrap normally, however to constrain text a table is a better option as I responded in one of your other threads. There is also a control toolbox toolbar in Word. the controls on this toolbar are not compatible with on-line forms. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org David wrote: Hi Herb, Thanks for the reply. There appears to be two types of text boxes within Word. One is the text box that is pulled from the Draw button bar. The other is the one from the form design tool bar. The text box I have in question is the text Box pulled from the form design button bar. I see what you are talking about in requards to a regular text box. If you would like, I could send you the form I have been working on so you can see what I am talking about. David "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Right click the edge of the text box and choose Format Text Box. Click the Text Box tab and ensure that "Word wrap text in AutoShape" is enabled. Take a look at Resize AutoShape to fit text as well, if you might find that option useful. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "David" wrote in message ... I am creating a form in Word 2003 using text boxes. Mu difficulty is that I can not get the text to wrap in the box. If the text exceeds the size of the text box it will not wrap. I have gone into the properties window for the text box and specififed that I want the text to wrap - but it will not. ANy suggestions? |
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