Position Text Box in line with text

[Tobias Weber]

Hi,
in Word v.X the positioning option "in line with text" is not available
for text boxes. The workaround I found is to type my text, cut it and
paste special as word object...

 

[Tobias Weber]

That's correct: A "Text Box" is a "Picture" and cannot be placed in the
text layer. Use a "Frame" if you want text in a box in the text layer.

For a text box converted to a frame Word v.X only offers wrapping "none"
or "around", not "in line with text".

Look up "Frames" in the Help. The easiest way to create one is often to
convert a Text Box into a frame

The Help is necessary since that button is very well hidden...

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Yeah, well

If you have an object "In line with text", then the text *can't* wrap around
it.

Similarly, if you set the text wrapping to "None", the object is by
definition *in line with the text*.

Whether "over there" is north or south depends on where you are standing

Cheers

For a text box converted to a frame Word v.X only offers wrapping "none"
or "around", not "in line with text".


The Help is necessary since that button is very well hidden...

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[Tobias Weber]

If you have an object "In line with text", then the text *can't* wrap around

Which is not what I want, anyway.

Similarly, if you set the text wrapping to "None", the object is by
definition *in line with the text*.

"In line with text" is verbatim one of the options Word has for images.
It's in the dialog box under the heading of "wrapping style". It makes
the image behave like a character, that is adhere to paragraph settings
like orphan control or horizontal alignement. I can also indent it with
tabstops. Very useful for figures with description.

This works for pasted objects, be it from Excel or Word itself.

I still do not see a way to make a Text Box behave like that. Might be
blind.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Tobias:

Yep. You've got it. Get rid of the text box if you want the content
"Inline with Text", or use a frame if you want text to behave like it's in a
text box.

Personally, I use the Insert>Object... Method myself to hold things together
without using a text box (I rarely use text boxes: don't trust them...).
That technique actually embeds an entire "Document" within the current
document, and you can use this fact to do exciting things such as have
same-named styles with completely different definitions.

You cannot make a text box behave like you want: any more than you can make
a pig fly: they're designed for different environments

It does occur to me that we haven't yet discovered what your end purpose is
in doing this. Maybe if you tell us what you need to accomplish, we may be
able to suggest a different approach that will work better.

Cheers

Which is not what I want, anyway.


"In line with text" is verbatim one of the options Word has for images.
It's in the dialog box under the heading of "wrapping style". It makes
the image behave like a character, that is adhere to paragraph settings
like orphan control or horizontal alignement. I can also indent it with
tabstops. Very useful for figures with description.

This works for pasted objects, be it from Excel or Word itself.

I still do not see a way to make a Text Box behave like that. Might be
blind.

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410