Wrapping text around a graphic inside a text box

[Trish Coughlin Higgins]

I'm using a postcard template for a mailout in Word, 4 postcards per page.
The default setting uses 4 textboxes as the place for the postcard text. I've
placed an image inside the text box but I am unable to wrap text around the
image. When I select the image, click format then click layout the whole
screen is gray, and there is no way to select a wrap option. The default is
no wrapping. When I paste the same image outside of the text box there is no
problem selecting wrapping options.

 

[Cindy M.]

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I'm using a postcard template for a mailout in Word, 4 postcards per page.
The default setting uses 4 textboxes as the place for the postcard text. I've
placed an image inside the text box but I am unable to wrap text around the
image. When I select the image, click format then click layout the whole
screen is gray, and there is no way to select a wrap option. The default is
no wrapping. When I paste the same image outside of the text box there is no
problem selecting wrapping options.

Wrapping text IN a drawing object around another drawing object or picture is
simply not something Word can do.

Try using a four-cell table (with exact row and column sizing). If this is Word
2000 (I think it works in 2000) or later, the text should wrap around an image
placed "in" the table cell.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[TedMi]

I second Cindy's suggestion to use a 4-cell table. You can find a template
for that here: http://www.mirecki.us/computing/

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or, if the postcards are standard Avery (or similar) stock, you can use
Tools | Letters and Mailings | Envelopes and Labels and select the
appropriate stock number from the Label Options dialog.

Having selected a postcard label definition, use New Document in the Labels
dialog to create a new document with this format. The postcards are
formatted as a table, so be sure you have table gridlines displayed (Table |
Show Gridlines) so you can see the card boundaries.