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Tools | Options | General: clear the last check box for "Automatically
create drawing canvas..." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marcus Fox" wrote in message ... "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:19:02 GMT, "Marcus Fox" wrote: "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . That's it. In Word, each formatting property is associated with some level of detail (from largest to smallest, the levels are document, section, paragraph, sentence, word, and character). Indenting is a paragraph-level property. You can tell Word to indent the first line of a paragraph differently than the other lines, but that's the limit of the flexibility. Thus, to indent some selection of lines that aren't either a full paragraph or the first line of a paragraph, you need to use the wrapping capabilities of some drawing object. It could be an AutoShape (rectangle or any other shape), a text box, a frame, or a table with text wrapping turned on. Any of these can be made invisible by setting the line color appropriately. Okay, is it possible in some way to specify the size of the drawing object in a dialog or similar, rather than having to compare it up against the ruler on the screen in Word? Which drawing object should I use? Marcus I'd use the rectangle tool from the Drawing toolbar, as it's probably simplest (but not by much). After drawing the rectangle to approximately the right size, right-click it and select Format AutoShape. In that dialog: - On the Colors & Lines tab, set "no line". - On the Size tab, set the size you want. - On the Layout tab, set the wrapping to Tight and the horizontal alignment to Left. Then click the Advanced button; make sure the vertical alignment is set to 0 relative to Paragraph, and that Move With Text is checked. The other objects I mentioned have similar but not identical dialogs. Yeah, it's easy enough to do in Word 2000, but in Word XP, a poxy "create your drawing here" box appears, and shifts the text around. Can I disable that somehow? Marcus |
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On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:47:29 GMT, "Marcus Fox"
wrote: "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:19:02 GMT, "Marcus Fox" wrote: Okay, is it possible in some way to specify the size of the drawing object in a dialog or similar, rather than having to compare it up against the ruler on the screen in Word? Which drawing object should I use? Marcus I'd use the rectangle tool from the Drawing toolbar, as it's probably simplest (but not by much). After drawing the rectangle to approximately the right size, right-click it and select Format AutoShape. In that dialog: - On the Colors & Lines tab, set "no line". - On the Size tab, set the size you want. - On the Layout tab, set the wrapping to Tight and the horizontal alignment to Left. Then click the Advanced button; make sure the vertical alignment is set to 0 relative to Paragraph, and that Move With Text is checked. The other objects I mentioned have similar but not identical dialogs. Yeah, it's easy enough to do in Word 2000, but in Word XP, a poxy "create your drawing here" box appears, and shifts the text around. Can I disable that somehow? Marcus Yes. In Tools Options General, uncheck the box for "Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:47:29 GMT, "Marcus Fox" wrote: "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:19:02 GMT, "Marcus Fox" wrote: Okay, is it possible in some way to specify the size of the drawing object in a dialog or similar, rather than having to compare it up against the ruler on the screen in Word? Which drawing object should I use? Marcus I'd use the rectangle tool from the Drawing toolbar, as it's probably simplest (but not by much). After drawing the rectangle to approximately the right size, right-click it and select Format AutoShape. In that dialog: - On the Colors & Lines tab, set "no line". - On the Size tab, set the size you want. - On the Layout tab, set the wrapping to Tight and the horizontal alignment to Left. Then click the Advanced button; make sure the vertical alignment is set to 0 relative to Paragraph, and that Move With Text is checked. The other objects I mentioned have similar but not identical dialogs. Yeah, it's easy enough to do in Word 2000, but in Word XP, a poxy "create your drawing here" box appears, and shifts the text around. Can I disable that somehow? Marcus Yes. In Tools Options General, uncheck the box for "Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes". Thank you all. Marcus |
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