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text box on bottom disappears in template when text added
I made a template of a letterhead with a text box at the bottom with the
business address but when I type a letter in the body, the text box disappears completely from the page. What am I doing wrong? |
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text box on bottom disappears in template when text added
I suspect the problem is with how the textbox is anchored and what the text
wrapping settings are. Most likely, the textbox is anchored to a specific paragraph and (possibly) set to use an 'In line with text' wrapping style. When you add content to your document, this pushes the anchoring paragraph down and moves the textbox off the page. Because there's no second page, the textbox seems to disappear, but in reality it's just moved to a place where it's no longer visible. You could layout the textbox to float in front of the text and be positioned relative to the page or anchor it to a paragraph that you're sure isn't going to move when you add content to the document, but this can be fiddly and I find it's usually more work than it's worth. An easier approach might be to set up the document with a different first page footer and put the textbox into the footer for the first page. That way the textbox will stay anchored - because additions to the body of the document won't affect the content of the footer - and will only appear on the first page - because Word will automatically use a different footer for the second and subsequent pages within the section. In addition, on a letter where the first page is usually not numbered, this approach makes it easier to control the page numbering. Just insert a page break into your template, edit the second page footer to add the page number, and then delete the page break again. If your letter goes over one page, then the footer with the page number in it will automatically be displayed on the second and subsequent pages. -- Cheers! Gordon Bentley-Mix Word MVP Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups - no membership required! "Tootle" wrote in message ... I made a template of a letterhead with a text box at the bottom with the business address but when I type a letter in the body, the text box disappears completely from the page. What am I doing wrong? |
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Moreover, if the text itself is placed in the footer, it will probably be
possible to do away with the text box entirely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Gordon Bentley-Mix" wrote in message ... I suspect the problem is with how the textbox is anchored and what the text wrapping settings are. Most likely, the textbox is anchored to a specific paragraph and (possibly) set to use an 'In line with text' wrapping style. When you add content to your document, this pushes the anchoring paragraph down and moves the textbox off the page. Because there's no second page, the textbox seems to disappear, but in reality it's just moved to a place where it's no longer visible. You could layout the textbox to float in front of the text and be positioned relative to the page or anchor it to a paragraph that you're sure isn't going to move when you add content to the document, but this can be fiddly and I find it's usually more work than it's worth. An easier approach might be to set up the document with a different first page footer and put the textbox into the footer for the first page. That way the textbox will stay anchored - because additions to the body of the document won't affect the content of the footer - and will only appear on the first page - because Word will automatically use a different footer for the second and subsequent pages within the section. In addition, on a letter where the first page is usually not numbered, this approach makes it easier to control the page numbering. Just insert a page break into your template, edit the second page footer to add the page number, and then delete the page break again. If your letter goes over one page, then the footer with the page number in it will automatically be displayed on the second and subsequent pages. -- Cheers! Gordon Bentley-Mix Word MVP Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups - no membership required! "Tootle" wrote in message ... I made a template of a letterhead with a text box at the bottom with the business address but when I type a letter in the body, the text box disappears completely from the page. What am I doing wrong? |
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text box on bottom disappears in template when text added
Good point! In fact, that would be my preferred approach. Textboxes are just
plain evil! ;-P -- Cheers! Gordon Bentley-Mix Word MVP Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups - no membership required! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Moreover, if the text itself is placed in the footer, it will probably be possible to do away with the text box entirely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Gordon Bentley-Mix" wrote in message ... I suspect the problem is with how the textbox is anchored and what the text wrapping settings are. Most likely, the textbox is anchored to a specific paragraph and (possibly) set to use an 'In line with text' wrapping style. When you add content to your document, this pushes the anchoring paragraph down and moves the textbox off the page. Because there's no second page, the textbox seems to disappear, but in reality it's just moved to a place where it's no longer visible. You could layout the textbox to float in front of the text and be positioned relative to the page or anchor it to a paragraph that you're sure isn't going to move when you add content to the document, but this can be fiddly and I find it's usually more work than it's worth. An easier approach might be to set up the document with a different first page footer and put the textbox into the footer for the first page. That way the textbox will stay anchored - because additions to the body of the document won't affect the content of the footer - and will only appear on the first page - because Word will automatically use a different footer for the second and subsequent pages within the section. In addition, on a letter where the first page is usually not numbered, this approach makes it easier to control the page numbering. Just insert a page break into your template, edit the second page footer to add the page number, and then delete the page break again. If your letter goes over one page, then the footer with the page number in it will automatically be displayed on the second and subsequent pages. -- Cheers! Gordon Bentley-Mix Word MVP Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups - no membership required! "Tootle" wrote in message ... I made a template of a letterhead with a text box at the bottom with the business address but when I type a letter in the body, the text box disappears completely from the page. What am I doing wrong? |
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text box on bottom disappears in template when text added
I certainly avoid them whenever possible (which in my work is essentially
always--if pressed hard, I'll use a frame rather than a text box). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Gordon Bentley-Mix" wrote in message ... Good point! In fact, that would be my preferred approach. Textboxes are just plain evil! ;-P -- Cheers! Gordon Bentley-Mix Word MVP Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups - no membership required! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Moreover, if the text itself is placed in the footer, it will probably be possible to do away with the text box entirely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Gordon Bentley-Mix" wrote in message ... I suspect the problem is with how the textbox is anchored and what the text wrapping settings are. Most likely, the textbox is anchored to a specific paragraph and (possibly) set to use an 'In line with text' wrapping style. When you add content to your document, this pushes the anchoring paragraph down and moves the textbox off the page. Because there's no second page, the textbox seems to disappear, but in reality it's just moved to a place where it's no longer visible. You could layout the textbox to float in front of the text and be positioned relative to the page or anchor it to a paragraph that you're sure isn't going to move when you add content to the document, but this can be fiddly and I find it's usually more work than it's worth. An easier approach might be to set up the document with a different first page footer and put the textbox into the footer for the first page. That way the textbox will stay anchored - because additions to the body of the document won't affect the content of the footer - and will only appear on the first page - because Word will automatically use a different footer for the second and subsequent pages within the section. In addition, on a letter where the first page is usually not numbered, this approach makes it easier to control the page numbering. Just insert a page break into your template, edit the second page footer to add the page number, and then delete the page break again. If your letter goes over one page, then the footer with the page number in it will automatically be displayed on the second and subsequent pages. -- Cheers! Gordon Bentley-Mix Word MVP Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups - no membership required! "Tootle" wrote in message ... I made a template of a letterhead with a text box at the bottom with the business address but when I type a letter in the body, the text box disappears completely from the page. What am I doing wrong? |
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