Text Wrapping in Word 2K or 2007 Tables

[LPS]

Using either Word 2000 or 2007, I have a client who wants text to wrap to the
next row of a table instead of the text wrapping within the current row. I
know that Word cannot do this by itself but is there a relatively simple
macro that can do this?

All help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Stefan Blom]

In Word 2007 you can use linked text boxes in table cells to make text
continue into the following row. Insert a text box in a cell of row 1, and
another text box in a cell of row 2 (and so forth). Make sure the height of
the text boxes is suitable for one line of text.

For each text box, set the Text Wrapping to "In line with text"; that way,
you have positioned the text box inside the table cell. Then link the text
boxes (for example by using Create Link on the right-click/context menu).

Note that the number of linked text boxes within a single document is
limited (right now, I can't remember the number of allowed links).

 

[Jay Freedman]

The limit is 32 boxes linked in a single chain. You can have multiple chains in
one document -- I'm looking at one document that has 40 text boxes in four
chains of 10 each.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Stefan Blom]

OK, thank you for that information, Jay.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

The limit is 32 boxes linked in a single chain. You can have multiple
chains in
one document -- I'm looking at one document that has 40 text boxes in four
chains of 10 each.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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so all
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