Text box in header

[Julia]

Hi;

I have a long rectangular text box in my header that
contains my company name and address. In the body of the
document, I am unable to use my Left Indent. I've tried
it several ways, and created styles to do it, but I cannot
indent text on the left. I've tried to change the format
of the text box, I even removed it and put it into the
document iteself, but it still doesn't work. Help!
Thanks

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Julia,

I have a long rectangular text box in my header that
contains my company name and address. In the body of the
document, I am unable to use my Left Indent. I've tried
it several ways, and created styles to do it, but I cannot
indent text on the left. I've tried to change the format
of the text box, I even removed it and put it into the
document iteself, but it still doesn't work.

I take it this box runs down the side of the page, not across
it horizontally? This is how Word is supposed to behave; I
don't like it, I've complained about it since the mid-90's,
but ever since the improved "text flow" around drawing
objects was introduced back then, paragraph indents in text
next to a drawing object doesn't work.

(Note: Suzanne Barnhill might jump in here and say it does
for her, but she's an exception and no one really is sure
why.)

The only workaround I've ever come across for this is to
apply NUMBER formatting to the text - with no number and no
indent. The indents for numbering override paragraph
formatting, and apparently aren't picked up by the drawing
layer's text flow. So these indent settings take precedence.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The crazy thing is that it only sort of works for me now in Word 2002. I
don't see the indents in Print Layout view or even in Print Preview, but I
get them in the printed document, which is *really* unsatisfactory. I assume
that installing Word 2003 will complete the process of breaking this for me,
but who knows?

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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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