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Old May 16th, 2007, 07:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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can i anchor textbox to page and not to paragraph?
i want the textbox stay in this page even if the paragraph went to another
page!
thank for any help.
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Old May 16th, 2007, 11:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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Default anchor of textbox

Afraid not - there are no "pages" in Word's file structure, even though th
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Bob Jones
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e on-screen presentation seems to suggest otherwise.
"????? ??" wrote in message
...
can i anchor textbox to page and not to paragraph?
i want the textbox stay in this page even if the paragraph went to another
page!
thank for any help.



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Old May 17th, 2007, 07:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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Default anchor of textbox

your answer cut?

"CyberTaz" wrote:

Afraid not - there are no "pages" in Word's file structure, even though th
--
Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
e on-screen presentation seems to suggest otherwise.
"????? ??" wrote in message
...
can i anchor textbox to page and not to paragraph?
i want the textbox stay in this page even if the paragraph went to another
page!
thank for any help.




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Old May 17th, 2007, 10:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]
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Default anchor of textbox

Hi ????? ??:

His answer is actually "complete" :-) You cannot anchor anything to a
"page" in Word because the document file structure does not contain any
"pages".

Word inserts page-breaks into the document at output time, on the way to the
screen or the printer. It doesn't store them in the file, so they do not
exist as things you can anchor anything to.

What you can do is anchor something to a paragraph, then specify a position
for that item relative to the edge of the page upon which the paragraph
lands. The trick then becomes preventing the paragraph from changing to a
different page. You can do this various ways: one of the simples is
anchoring to a Heading paragraph that has a style that specifies "Page Break
Before" so that it is always at the top of a new page.

However, when you start doing this sort of thing, it is time to have a
serious think about whether you should be moving this piece of work to a
different applicatiuon. Word is not the right tool for doing page layout.
If you only have to do one or two of these in a book, then I would carry on
in Word. But if you have three of these on every page, it's time to invest
in proper page layout software such as Adobe InDesign.

Word is a "word-processor". It is designed to allow pages to move around
for best fit, and for items to move around on the pages. Word is designed
to make upo your pages automatically. Page Layout software is designed in
the opposite manner: you begin by creating empty pages, then placing items
in specific positions on the pages. Different job to do, different way of
working.

Hope this helps

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Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410,

"????? ??" wrote in message
...
your answer cut?

"CyberTaz" wrote:

Afraid not - there are no "pages" in Word's file structure, even though
th
--
Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
e on-screen presentation seems to suggest otherwise.
"????? ??" wrote in message
...
can i anchor textbox to page and not to paragraph?
i want the textbox stay in this page even if the paragraph went to
another
page!
thank for any help.






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Old May 17th, 2007, 11:18 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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Default anchor of textbox

thank you for the reply.
i have a litle dificult with english, but i think that i understand.
but i want to continue work with word.
actualy, i am page a book, and textboxes are my way to page the text in 2
column and the footnotes in 1.
i changed the footnotes to endnotes, buikd textbox in every page, linked
them each other (macro), and put the text of the footnotes into the first
textbox. then i fix the numbers of the footnotes (they all become number 1)
and change the size of the textboxes to make shure that every footnotes are
in they page.

"John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]" wrote:

Hi ????? ??:

His answer is actually "complete" :-) You cannot anchor anything to a
"page" in Word because the document file structure does not contain any
"pages".

Word inserts page-breaks into the document at output time, on the way to the
screen or the printer. It doesn't store them in the file, so they do not
exist as things you can anchor anything to.

What you can do is anchor something to a paragraph, then specify a position
for that item relative to the edge of the page upon which the paragraph
lands. The trick then becomes preventing the paragraph from changing to a
different page. You can do this various ways: one of the simples is
anchoring to a Heading paragraph that has a style that specifies "Page Break
Before" so that it is always at the top of a new page.

However, when you start doing this sort of thing, it is time to have a
serious think about whether you should be moving this piece of work to a
different applicatiuon. Word is not the right tool for doing page layout.
If you only have to do one or two of these in a book, then I would carry on
in Word. But if you have three of these on every page, it's time to invest
in proper page layout software such as Adobe InDesign.

Word is a "word-processor". It is designed to allow pages to move around
for best fit, and for items to move around on the pages. Word is designed
to make upo your pages automatically. Page Layout software is designed in
the opposite manner: you begin by creating empty pages, then placing items
in specific positions on the pages. Different job to do, different way of
working.

Hope this helps

--

Don't wait for your answer, click he http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410,

"????? ??" wrote in message
...
your answer cut?

"CyberTaz" wrote:

Afraid not - there are no "pages" in Word's file structure, even though
th
--
Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
e on-screen presentation seems to suggest otherwise.
"????? ??" wrote in message
...
can i anchor textbox to page and not to paragraph?
i want the textbox stay in this page even if the paragraph went to
another
page!
thank for any help.






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Old May 17th, 2007, 11:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
CyberTaz
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Default anchor of textbox

Sorry -

I inadvertently stuck my sig in the wrong place - the entire message is
there but got split It should have read as:


Afraid not - there are no "pages" in Word's file structure, even though the
on-screen presentation seems to suggest otherwise.


Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac


John's reply is more thorough, anyway, but states pretty much the same
thing.

Also, based on your latest post, I sincerely hope you constantly maintain a
safe backup of that file. No offense, but if I correctly understand your
description the file is quite likely to become corrupt. I fully agree with
John that this type of work needs to be done in a program designed for the
purpose. You could still do your composition in Word if you wish, then
Import/Place the content into a desktop publishing file for layout.

Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 




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