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How do I lock a text box in position in Word?
I have built a letterhead template with text boxes on the left and right
sides. When I generate a new document from the template, the boxes move down as I type text. Do I need to put the boxes in the header? I'm worried that will make the template buggy. Is there a way to lock the text boxes so they don't move? Thanks! |
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Know enough to get in trouble wrote:
I have built a letterhead template with text boxes on the left and right sides. When I generate a new document from the template, the boxes move down as I type text. Do I need to put the boxes in the header? I'm worried that will make the template buggy. Is there a way to lock the text boxes so they don't move? Thanks! Yes, you need to anchor the boxes in the header. No, it won't make the template buggy. No, there is no other way to lock their positions. See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm, especially the section titled "More complex letterhead". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Putting the text boxes in the first-page header is _the_ way to handle this.
It won't make the template buggy. Take a look at: Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial http://addbalance.com/word/download....StylesTutorial and how to set up letterhead or some other document where you want one header on the first page and a different header on other pages. http://www.addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm This gives step-by-step instructions. (It also has the following links) Some other pages to look at: Letterhead Tips and Instructions http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm Template Basics http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart2.htm Word "Forms" http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordw...rces.htm#Forms and Word for Word Perfect Users http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm if you are coming from a WP environment (or even if you are not). If you are interested in creating templates that will work with the letter wizard or use that wizard, you should look at the chapter on Advanced Document Formatting in Using Office 2003 (or whatever your version is), Special Edition, by Ed Bott and Woody Leonhard. It has detailed instructions including instructions on getting the fields you want from your Outlook Contacts for addressing a letter. (Chapter 19 of SE Using Office 2003) You should be able to get this through your public library or at Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/IS...ncecheckbookA/ Finally, take a look at the letter templates that come with Word. While they are no great shakes as letterhead, they do use styles and AutoText lists very well. If you use the same style names that are used in those templates in your own letterhead for the same parts of the document, you will have better luck with using the built-in AutoText entries in Word. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Know enough to get in trouble" Know enough to get in wrote in message ... I have built a letterhead template with text boxes on the left and right sides. When I generate a new document from the template, the boxes move down as I type text. Do I need to put the boxes in the header? I'm worried that will make the template buggy. Is there a way to lock the text boxes so they don't move? Thanks! |
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