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Arcane Question @ Text Boxes & "Frames"
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
As Graham, Jezebel, and Jay have suggested in their various ways, it would probably help you to understand what I've written if you would read Word's Help and familiarize yourself with its terminology. I can also suggest this MSKB article: "WD2000: General Information About Floating Objects" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=268713. You might also see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/DrawLayer.htm Indeed, as someone who has used WORD as a word-processing tool since 1994, I'm versed enough to be aware that I cannot understand the connotations WORD gives to various functions. (I tend to think there's something to be said for one's being aware of one's own ignorance ..) Every time I have posted over the last dozen + years on a MVP-associated forum, Ms. Barnhill, believe me, I *have* read the articles MVPs have referred me to. As the below and no doubt excellent explanation illustrates, WORD's more complex functions (for the publishing industry? advertising industry? which industry, exactly, has always been something of a mystery to me) rely heavily on a user's ability to understand connotative language. Although I have a Master's in English, from a university that doesn't advertise on matchbooks, my master's is in literature. Perhaps a master's in technical writing would have enabled me to truly understand (and profit from) WORD. In any event, thank you very much for the help this weekend and (under other online pseudonyms) in the past. In Word 97 and earlier, MS used the term "float[ing] over text" to describe objects in the drawing layer. When you inserted a picture, say, using Insert | Picture | From File, the "Float over text" check box was checked by default, and you had to clear it to insert the picture "inline." A "floating" picture by default had "square" wrapping; other options were Tight, Through, None, and Top and Bottom. You also had a choice of wrapping text to both sides, left, right, or "largest side." Word 2000 made significant changes in the way inserted/pasted pictures were handled. The default "wrapping style" became In Line With Text (previously called "inline"). An inline graphic is treated the same as text, that is, rather like a large font character. Usually you would want it in a paragraph by itself, with line spacing set to Auto; users come to grief inserting pictures into paragraphs with Exact line spacing (so that only a tiny slice of the bottom of the picture is displayed). The new inline default confused many veteran Word users, too; previously able to drag pictures freely around the page, they now found they could move pictures only where there was already text. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to change the wrapping. In Word 2000 and above, when you click on a graphic, the Picture toolbar is displayed. One of the buttons on the toolbar is Text Wrapping (dog icon); this opens a menu allowing you to change the wrapping of the object from In Line With Text to Square, Tight, Behind Text, In Front of Text, etc. |
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Arcane Question @ Text Boxes & "Frames"
My master's is in Latin; perhaps that makes it easier for me to acquire
another foreign language. g -- 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. "Elmer" wrote in message oups.com... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: As Graham, Jezebel, and Jay have suggested in their various ways, it would probably help you to understand what I've written if you would read Word's Help and familiarize yourself with its terminology. I can also suggest this MSKB article: "WD2000: General Information About Floating Objects" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=268713. You might also see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/DrawLayer.htm Indeed, as someone who has used WORD as a word-processing tool since 1994, I'm versed enough to be aware that I cannot understand the connotations WORD gives to various functions. (I tend to think there's something to be said for one's being aware of one's own ignorance .) Every time I have posted over the last dozen + years on a MVP-associated forum, Ms. Barnhill, believe me, I *have* read the articles MVPs have referred me to. As the below and no doubt excellent explanation illustrates, WORD's more complex functions (for the publishing industry? advertising industry? which industry, exactly, has always been something of a mystery to me) rely heavily on a user's ability to understand connotative language. Although I have a Master's in English, from a university that doesn't advertise on matchbooks, my master's is in literature. Perhaps a master's in technical writing would have enabled me to truly understand (and profit from) WORD. In any event, thank you very much for the help this weekend and (under other online pseudonyms) in the past. In Word 97 and earlier, MS used the term "float[ing] over text" to describe objects in the drawing layer. When you inserted a picture, say, using Insert | Picture | From File, the "Float over text" check box was checked by default, and you had to clear it to insert the picture "inline." A "floating" picture by default had "square" wrapping; other options were Tight, Through, None, and Top and Bottom. You also had a choice of wrapping text to both sides, left, right, or "largest side." Word 2000 made significant changes in the way inserted/pasted pictures were handled. The default "wrapping style" became In Line With Text (previously called "inline"). An inline graphic is treated the same as text, that is, rather like a large font character. Usually you would want it in a paragraph by itself, with line spacing set to Auto; users come to grief inserting pictures into paragraphs with Exact line spacing (so that only a tiny slice of the bottom of the picture is displayed). The new inline default confused many veteran Word users, too; previously able to drag pictures freely around the page, they now found they could move pictures only where there was already text. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to change the wrapping. In Word 2000 and above, when you click on a graphic, the Picture toolbar is displayed. One of the buttons on the toolbar is Text Wrapping (dog icon); this opens a menu allowing you to change the wrapping of the object from In Line With Text to Square, Tight, Behind Text, In Front of Text, etc. |
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Arcane Question @ Text Boxes & "Frames"
Hi Elmer,
Which is why it is especially frustrating that, if you use Insert | Caption with a floating (wrapped) object selected, Word puts the caption in a text box (you'll need to either convert that to a frame or pull the text out, change the wrapping on the figure to In Line With Text, and insert both figure and caption in a single frame). While you (and Jezebel) have been invaluable in this mini-lesson, the above is so VERY recondite, I wonder if more than three people in the entire world, the author of WORD included, knows exactly what it means ! Well, I make four... :-) Cindy Meister |
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