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Flow text into a text box
Is it possible in Word2003 to have text flow from a regualr page - not a
text box - into a text box? Meaning, can I create a link from the regular text flow to a text box on some other page? Thanks for any pointers, Guido |
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No. You can flow text only from one text box to another. You could attain
the desired appearance by creating a text box that covers an entire page, and turn off the borders for that textbox. It would appear to be a regular page when printed, but could be flowed (e.g. continued onto another page). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "G Henkel" wrote in message ... Is it possible in Word2003 to have text flow from a regualr page - not a text box - into a text box? Meaning, can I create a link from the regular text flow to a text box on some other page? Thanks for any pointers, Guido |
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Sadly that won't work for me. I have too many pages. I have 100 pages, each
with two columns. The entire document is ONE continuous textflow. No page breaks or anything -- ** no thank you I do not need lessons in layout becasue I am a trained typesetter ** I need to find a way to prevent Word from flowing text into some of these columns. Putting text boxes in those columns doesn't work because of a stupid bug in Word that will cause it to run at least one line of text under ANY text box regardless of whether there's room or not, destroying the entire layout in the process. Linking up all text in text boxes doesn't work either beause of the archaic 32 text box link limits that should have been removed decades ago. Anyway, I'll switch to Quark XPress again, I suppose, where features work the way they are supposed to. Guido "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... No. You can flow text only from one text box to another. You could attain the desired appearance by creating a text box that covers an entire page, and turn off the borders for that textbox. It would appear to be a regular page when printed, but could be flowed (e.g. continued onto another page). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "G Henkel" wrote in message ... Is it possible in Word2003 to have text flow from a regualr page - not a text box - into a text box? Meaning, can I create a link from the regular text flow to a text box on some other page? Thanks for any pointers, Guido |
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I don't know what you mean by "I need to find a way to prevent Word from
flowing text into some of these columns." Can it be done by inserting a column break (or two)? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "G Henkel" wrote in message ... Sadly that won't work for me. I have too many pages. I have 100 pages, each with two columns. The entire document is ONE continuous textflow. No page breaks or anything -- ** no thank you I do not need lessons in layout becasue I am a trained typesetter ** I need to find a way to prevent Word from flowing text into some of these columns. Putting text boxes in those columns doesn't work because of a stupid bug in Word that will cause it to run at least one line of text under ANY text box regardless of whether there's room or not, destroying the entire layout in the process. Linking up all text in text boxes doesn't work either beause of the archaic 32 text box link limits that should have been removed decades ago. Anyway, I'll switch to Quark XPress again, I suppose, where features work the way they are supposed to. Guido "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... No. You can flow text only from one text box to another. You could attain the desired appearance by creating a text box that covers an entire page, and turn off the borders for that textbox. It would appear to be a regular page when printed, but could be flowed (e.g. continued onto another page). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "G Henkel" wrote in message ... Is it possible in Word2003 to have text flow from a regualr page - not a text box - into a text box? Meaning, can I create a link from the regular text flow to a text box on some other page? Thanks for any pointers, Guido |
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I can't insert column breaks. I need to make sure my text is always flowing.
If I insert column breaks and then edit the text later I run the risk that the column break appears at the wrong place. So that is simply not an option. As I said, although what I'm trying to do is absolutely trivial, Word clearly doesn't have what it takes to handle anything that goes beyond a business letter or anything that requires management of a certain amount of text. Thanks for the help, though. While it didn't solve my problem it was certainly eye-opening. Guido "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... I don't know what you mean by "I need to find a way to prevent Word from flowing text into some of these columns." Can it be done by inserting a column break (or two)? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "G Henkel" wrote in message ... Sadly that won't work for me. I have too many pages. I have 100 pages, each with two columns. The entire document is ONE continuous textflow. No page breaks or anything -- ** no thank you I do not need lessons in layout becasue I am a trained typesetter ** I need to find a way to prevent Word from flowing text into some of these columns. Putting text boxes in those columns doesn't work because of a stupid bug in Word that will cause it to run at least one line of text under ANY text box regardless of whether there's room or not, destroying the entire layout in the process. Linking up all text in text boxes doesn't work either beause of the archaic 32 text box link limits that should have been removed decades ago. Anyway, I'll switch to Quark XPress again, I suppose, where features work the way they are supposed to. Guido "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... No. You can flow text only from one text box to another. You could attain the desired appearance by creating a text box that covers an entire page, and turn off the borders for that textbox. It would appear to be a regular page when printed, but could be flowed (e.g. continued onto another page). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "G Henkel" wrote in message ... Is it possible in Word2003 to have text flow from a regualr page - not a text box - into a text box? Meaning, can I create a link from the regular text flow to a text box on some other page? Thanks for any pointers, Guido |
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I don't of course know exactly what it is that you are doing, but I can
assure you that Word is capable of much more than a business letter and it used quite successfully for the production of some very large and quite complex documents. In the hands of the right person of course. On the other hand, there are many people who use it and end up creating a dog's breakfast out of the simplest of documents. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "G Henkel" wrote in message ... I can't insert column breaks. I need to make sure my text is always flowing. If I insert column breaks and then edit the text later I run the risk that the column break appears at the wrong place. So that is simply not an option. As I said, although what I'm trying to do is absolutely trivial, Word clearly doesn't have what it takes to handle anything that goes beyond a business letter or anything that requires management of a certain amount of text. Thanks for the help, though. While it didn't solve my problem it was certainly eye-opening. Guido "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... I don't know what you mean by "I need to find a way to prevent Word from flowing text into some of these columns." Can it be done by inserting a column break (or two)? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "G Henkel" wrote in message ... Sadly that won't work for me. I have too many pages. I have 100 pages, each with two columns. The entire document is ONE continuous textflow. No page breaks or anything -- ** no thank you I do not need lessons in layout becasue I am a trained typesetter ** I need to find a way to prevent Word from flowing text into some of these columns. Putting text boxes in those columns doesn't work because of a stupid bug in Word that will cause it to run at least one line of text under ANY text box regardless of whether there's room or not, destroying the entire layout in the process. Linking up all text in text boxes doesn't work either beause of the archaic 32 text box link limits that should have been removed decades ago. Anyway, I'll switch to Quark XPress again, I suppose, where features work the way they are supposed to. Guido "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... No. You can flow text only from one text box to another. You could attain the desired appearance by creating a text box that covers an entire page, and turn off the borders for that textbox. It would appear to be a regular page when printed, but could be flowed (e.g. continued onto another page). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "G Henkel" wrote in message ... Is it possible in Word2003 to have text flow from a regualr page - not a text box - into a text box? Meaning, can I create a link from the regular text flow to a text box on some other page? Thanks for any pointers, Guido |
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