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Ok. A very tough question appeared on an MS Word test. Essentially, you had
to choose the best text wrapping setting to get text with an image to appear a certain way. The example shown had text on 3 sides of a right-aligned image. The options included SQUARE and TIGHT, among others that were obviously wrong. my question is, what is the difference between Square and Tight? as far as I can tell, they do the same thing. |
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:46:00 -0700, Victor
wrote: Ok. A very tough question appeared on an MS Word test. Essentially, you had to choose the best text wrapping setting to get text with an image to appear a certain way. The example shown had text on 3 sides of a right-aligned image. The options included SQUARE and TIGHT, among others that were obviously wrong. my question is, what is the difference between Square and Tight? as far as I can tell, they do the same thing. If the graphic has a transparent background and non-rectangular contents, then the Tight wrapping will let the text extend across the background almost to the contents. In the same situation, Square will keep the text outside the graphic's rectangular bounding box. To see this work, insert a clip art -- for example, search for 'cat' and choose the one that shows a veterinarian and a child holding a cat. Set the wrapping to Tight. If the graphic is at the right margin, you'll probably have to make the surrounding text justified in order to see the effect. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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"Victor" wrote:
Ok. A very tough question appeared on an MS Word test. Essentially, you had to choose the best text wrapping setting to get text with an image to appear a certain way. The example shown had text on 3 sides of a right-aligned image. The options included SQUARE and TIGHT, among others that were obviously wrong. my question is, what is the difference between Square and Tight? as far as I can tell, they do the same thing. I'll do my best to answer this "tough" question... ;-) If your image does not have any transparency, then, yes, they produce the same result. If you want to make sure that the text is aligned according to straight lines around the image, use SQUARE. With TIGHT, if you have transparent colours, the text will try to flow inside the transparent area(s), which, depending on the complexity of the transparent area(s), might give strange (hard to control) results... |
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Let me guess, the image was square/rectangle, right? Tight wrapping allows
the text to wrap around an image. Take an oval image or drawing object for example. If the wrapping is set to Tight then the text will wrap to the oval shape. If it's set to Square the text will wrap to the bounding box which will be a square/rectangle. Of course if the image is square then Square and Tight will give you the same results. Additionally, as others have noted, if the "blank/white" area around an image in the bounding box isn't transparent then Square and Tight will take on the same appearance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "Victor" wrote in message ... Ok. A very tough question appeared on an MS Word test. Essentially, you had to choose the best text wrapping setting to get text with an image to appear a certain way. The example shown had text on 3 sides of a right-aligned image. The options included SQUARE and TIGHT, among others that were obviously wrong. my question is, what is the difference between Square and Tight? as far as I can tell, they do the same thing. |
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