text box borders

[tcmcvey]

How do I get rid of the border around text boxes. I've read the Help
and have selected "no border". I've even tried changing the color of
the border to white, but it won't go away. What's up?

 

[Michel Bintener]

Select the text box. (Make sure that you select the border, the cursor
should turn into a hand when you're on the right spot). Ctrl-click, choose
"Format Text Box". In the "Format" window, under the tab "Colors and Lines",
click on the dropdown menu for "Color" in the "Line" section and choose "No
line".

Michel

 

[Oz Springs]

Select the text box, control+mouseclick and select ³Format Text Box...² from
the contextual menu, then under ³line/Colur² select ³No Line².

For some reason text boxes are considered drawing objects.

 

[tcmcvey]

Michael,

Thank you. I was trying the Format>Borders and Shading to no avail.

Cheers.

 

[John McGhie]

The reason is that they *are* drawing objects A Word document is a
three-layer sandwich. A Text Box exists in the Graphics layer, it is not
physically in the main text layer of the document: Word simply displays it
as though it were.

Select the text box, control+mouseclick and select ³Format Text Box...² from
the contextual menu, then under ³line/Colur² select ³No Line².

For some reason text boxes are considered drawing objects.

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