Full-page drawing gets one line of text

[David]

I have a two column article of about 12 pages and want
to have a single page sidebar. So I use a drawing
grouped with some text boxes. Problem is, a single
line of text from the article seems to always appear
in the middle of the drawing!
Tried a bunch of stuff, like absolute and tied to text
placement, editing bounding box, etc. Nothing helps!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

What version of Word are you using?

Are you creating a 2 column document then
floating a drawing + text boxes separately and
then grouping it? What are you anchoring this
to (Tools=>Options=>View [x] Anchors) ?

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I have a two column article of about 12 pages and want
to have a single page sidebar. So I use a drawing
grouped with some text boxes. Problem is, a single
line of text from the article seems to always appear
in the middle of the drawing!
Tried a bunch of stuff, like absolute and tied to text
placement, editing bounding box, etc. Nothing helps! >>

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Any drawing object in Word (that is, anything that is in the drawing layer,
including text boxes) must be anchored to a text paragraph. This paragraph
may be empty, but it has to be there. That means that you can't have a page
that is exclusively drawing objects, with text from the preceding page
wrapping around it and flowing to the next. You have to break the text.
There are tricks for doing this unobtrusively (so that the text appears to
wrap around the sidebar), but there's no way to wrap text around a full-page
illustration.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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