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Problems with anchored text boxes
Hello,
Thanks to this forum, I've been able to create text boxes which are anchored to an alternating footer (odd/even). It looks great to have the boxes alternate sides of a two-column page at the bottom left then bottom right respectively. Here's my problem: I would like to input new text in each text box. The new text is a quotation taken from the page on which the text box sits. My problem is that the text wants to repeat just like the footer its anchored into. So the text in the text box on page one is linked to the text in the text box on page three. I first thought I would just break the 'link forward' between the text boxes, but they aren't linked forward to each other. The repeating is a function of the repeating and alternating footer. Does anyone know how to set it up so that I can still have the alternating text boxes, but without the problem of the repeating text within it? Thanks in advance, Nick --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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Just trying to get noticed.
Would someone please answer? Thank you, Nick --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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On 11/14/04 10:21 PM, "nickblaze " wrote:
Just trying to get noticed. Would someone please answer? Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ Although the speed of newsgroup responses is extremely variable, especially for complex problems and during the US weekend, you should be aware that ExcelForum.com is a very inefficient way to access these newsgroups. It is not an independent, self-sufficient website, but simply piggybacks onto public, international newsgroups. It mirrors the Microsoft public news server, and mirrors it slowly at that. Your questions show up on the server hours after you post them, and it seems that answers show up back at the site late. The majority of the people who may respond to your question are not using that site. Because your questions show up late, but stamped with the original time, they show up in the middle of the listing, among already read posts, instead of with the most recent posts. So people might miss your posts, or it may take hours to get an answer instead of the minutes possible with direct access to the news server. It's also a shame, as a number of helpful people on ExcelForum.com and WordForums.com post answers to questions that they are just now seeing, not knowing that the questions have already been answered and the original poster is probably no longer checking the newsgroup. See here for some suggestions on other ways to access the newsgroups. http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/index.htm DM |
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By definition, the footer repeats on every page. Since the text is inside a
text box anchored to the header, it too is part of the footer. However, since you say that the quotation in the text box is taken from the text on the page, if you format that text in the main page with a particular style, it *should* work as you want if you put a StyleRef field in the text box instead, and then the StyleRef field will pick up the last text formatted in that style. You will have to set this in both the odd and even footer. Look up StyleRef in Help, and if you don't know what styles are, see he http://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/TipsOnStyles.html You can use a character style that doesn't change the appearance at all. See also the "beyond numbering" section at the end of this page, for more on StyleRef: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...rontMatter.htm DM On 11/14/04 2:25 PM, "nickblaze " wrote: Hello, Thanks to this forum, I've been able to create text boxes which are anchored to an alternating footer (odd/even). It looks great to have the boxes alternate sides of a two-column page at the bottom left then bottom right respectively. Here's my problem: I would like to input new text in each text box. The new text is a quotation taken from the page on which the text box sits. My problem is that the text wants to repeat just like the footer its anchored into. So the text in the text box on page one is linked to the text in the text box on page three. I first thought I would just break the 'link forward' between the text boxes, but they aren't linked forward to each other. The repeating is a function of the repeating and alternating footer. Does anyone know how to set it up so that I can still have the alternating text boxes, but without the problem of the repeating text within it? Thanks in advance, Nick --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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On 11/14/04 11:32 PM, "Daiya Mitchell" wrote:
However, since you say that the quotation in the text box is taken from the text on the page, if you format that text in the main page with a particular style, it *should* work as you want if you put a StyleRef field in the text box instead, and then the StyleRef field will pick up the last text formatted in that style. Oops, my mistake! I don't think StyleRef will work inside a text box. It might work inside a frame, but I am not totally sure about that either. DM PS. It took more than 18 hours for my last posts on this thread to show up at wordforums.com |
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