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Options - textbox
Hi everyone,
A question from the Dutch newsgroup that we can't answer to our own astonishment. Maybe we are not looking close enough but here it goes. Insert a textbox, hit Format - textbox - third tab from the left - at the bottom hit advanced - at the bottom there are four options you can check can someone explain what the last one does something to do with the formatting of a table cell. The help files were not helpful at all. Luc |
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Luc wrote:
Hi everyone, A question from the Dutch newsgroup that we can't answer to our own astonishment. Maybe we are not looking close enough but here it goes. Insert a textbox, hit Format - textbox - third tab from the left - at the bottom hit advanced - at the bottom there are four options you can check can someone explain what the last one does something to do with the formatting of a table cell. The help files were not helpful at all. Luc Hi Luc, In the English versions of Word, that option is labeled "Layout in table cell". Checking on Google for that term (plus the terms "word" and "box" to eliminate many citations for HTML coding) finds this page, which is the same as the VBA help topic for the LayoutInCell property of a Shape object: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...HV01040501.asp Unfortunately, the article still doesn't explain what the option does. As often happens, it takes some experimentation to figure it out. If you have the cursor in a table cell when you click Insert Text Box, and draw the box inside the cell, you'll find that the "Layout in table cell" option is automatically checked. If you set the box's text wrapping to "Square" and uncheck the layout option, the text box will be forced outside the table. Checking the option again will restore the box's position inside the cell and wrap the other text in the cell around it. Although I can see what the option does, I don't understand why anyone would want to uncheck it. Presumably if you drew the text box inside the cell, you want it to stay there. I suspect it has something to do with backward compatibility with earlier versions of Word, in which text boxes could never be inside table cells. It may also be related to conversion to or from HTML, which uses tables for layout much more extensively than Word usually does. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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As always Jay thanks a million, this had us puzzeled for a while.
Luc "Jay Freedman" schreef in bericht ... Luc wrote: Hi everyone, A question from the Dutch newsgroup that we can't answer to our own astonishment. Maybe we are not looking close enough but here it goes. Insert a textbox, hit Format - textbox - third tab from the left - at the bottom hit advanced - at the bottom there are four options you can check can someone explain what the last one does something to do with the formatting of a table cell. The help files were not helpful at all. Luc Hi Luc, In the English versions of Word, that option is labeled "Layout in table cell". Checking on Google for that term (plus the terms "word" and "box" to eliminate many citations for HTML coding) finds this page, which is the same as the VBA help topic for the LayoutInCell property of a Shape object: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...HV01040501.asp Unfortunately, the article still doesn't explain what the option does. As often happens, it takes some experimentation to figure it out. If you have the cursor in a table cell when you click Insert Text Box, and draw the box inside the cell, you'll find that the "Layout in table cell" option is automatically checked. If you set the box's text wrapping to "Square" and uncheck the layout option, the text box will be forced outside the table. Checking the option again will restore the box's position inside the cell and wrap the other text in the cell around it. Although I can see what the option does, I don't understand why anyone would want to uncheck it. Presumably if you drew the text box inside the cell, you want it to stay there. I suspect it has something to do with backward compatibility with earlier versions of Word, in which text boxes could never be inside table cells. It may also be related to conversion to or from HTML, which uses tables for layout much more extensively than Word usually does. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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