Help on Text Frames and text wrap

[MacFan]

Is it possible to insert a graphic into a text box???

Is it possible to have text in a text box wrap around a graphic???

I surely would like to know.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi MacFan,

As far as I can tell (and someone else may know more), the answer to the
first question is yes; and the answer to the second question is a qualified
no.

To insert a graphic into a text box, copy the graphic and then go to
Edit>Paste Special>Paste as Picture.

To place a graphic into a text box that already contains text, insert the
cursor where you want the graphic to be and Edit>Paste Special>Paste as
Picture. But ... the picture will be pasted "inline with text" and you will
not be able to change that to make the text wrap. Apparently it's not
possible to have a floating object (which is what happens to a graphic when
you choose any option other than "inline with text") inside a text box.

However, you can achieve the look you want as long as you don't need to edit
the text ever again:

1. Type the text in a Word doc.
2. Insert the picture.
3. Format>Picture>Layout>Square, etc. (but not Inline).
4. Position the picture where you want it.
5. Select all.
6. Open a new PowerPoint doc.
7. Click into one of the text boxes that's in the blank PPT doc.
8. Edit>Paste Special> Paste as Picture.
9. Copy the resulting picture (which now includes both text and graphic).
10. Go back to Word and open a new doc.
11. Create a text box.
12. Insert the cursor inside it.
13. Edit>Paste Special> Paste as Picture.

Basically what you've done is turn your text+graphic into a picture and then
paste the picture into a Word text box. Because it's now a picture, you can
no longer edit it.

By the way, you don't need to use PowerPoint: I just figured that if you
have Word, then you have PPT. You can use any application capable of
creating a graphic (GraphicConverter, Omnigraffle, etc.).

One last thing: You're using the terms "text box" and "text frame"
interchangeably. They're not the same thing. Look them up in Word's Help
to learn the differences.

And that's the best I can do .

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Beth Rosengard
MacOffice MVP

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[MacFan]

Thanks for the info. I am an Appleworks user and it is simple to do
that. I forsee in the future that I will be converting to Word and I
am trying to do everything I can do in Appleworks in Word. This one
had me stumped.

MacFan

 

[MacFan]

If that is the only way to simulate text wrap why not just do a Command
Shift 4 and highlight the text you want? (Screen snapshot) That is the
quickest way to create a graphic on a Mac.

Mac Fan

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

If you use a lot of graphics and don't need advanced long documents,
etc--that is, if you are creating newsletters rather than a Ph.D.
thesis--then you might also investigate Apple's Pages.

Word treats things in the text layer and things in the draw layer (most but
not all graphics) very differently from each other, which is why that is
complicated--more info here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/DrawLayer.htm

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Because I didn't think of it !

Also, you get more options in a graphics program but a screen shot will
definitely work.

Beth