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Changing default text box settings
I have Word 2000. I'm working on a project that will require a LOT of text boxes. When I draw a text box, I want it to automatically have certain settings. For instance, currently the defaults seem to be:
Line color: Black Layout: In front of text Internal margins: .1" left & right, .05" top & bottom What I would like in every text box I create is: Line color: No line Layout: Square Internal margins: 0" all I can't determine WHERE I go to change the default settings, although I have a strong hunch that the settings are stored in normal.dot. I also seem to remember that at one time the default layout was in fact "square", so I think that I or a co-worker must have changed it at some point, accidentally or intentionally. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Changing default text box settings
Not sure about Word 2000, but in Word 2002 once you get the text box
formatted as you like, left click once on the text box to select it, then right click on an edge of the text box, and left click on Set AutoShape Defaults. Marlene McCall wrote: I have Word 2000. I'm working on a project that will require a LOT of text boxes. When I draw a text box, I want it to automatically have certain settings. For instance, currently the defaults seem to be: Line color: Black Layout: In front of text Internal margins: .1" left & right, .05" top & bottom What I would like in every text box I create is: Line color: No line Layout: Square Internal margins: 0" all I can't determine WHERE I go to change the default settings, although I have a strong hunch that the settings are stored in normal.dot. I also seem to remember that at one time the default layout was in fact "square", so I think that I or a co-worker must have changed it at some point, accidentally or intentionally. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Changing default text box settings
Garfield:
Yes, it works. You saved me oodles of time. Thanks! Marlene ********************** "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Not sure about Word 2000, but in Word 2002 once you get the text box formatted as you like, left click once on the text box to select it, then right click on an edge of the text box, and left click on Set AutoShape Defaults. Marlene McCall wrote: I have Word 2000. I'm working on a project that will require a LOT of text boxes. When I draw a text box, I want it to automatically have certain settings. For instance, currently the defaults seem to be: Line color: Black Layout: In front of text Internal margins: .1" left & right, .05" top & bottom What I would like in every text box I create is: Line color: No line Layout: Square Internal margins: 0" all I can't determine WHERE I go to change the default settings, although I have a strong hunch that the settings are stored in normal.dot. I also seem to remember that at one time the default layout was in fact "square", so I think that I or a co-worker must have changed it at some point, accidentally or intentionally. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Changing default text box settings
Why not simply save a formatted text box as an autotext item which will make
it simple to insert similar items. If a table would work, use that instead. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Marlene McCall wrote: I have Word 2000. I'm working on a project that will require a LOT of text boxes. When I draw a text box, I want it to automatically have certain settings. For instance, currently the defaults seem to be: Line color: Black Layout: In front of text Internal margins: .1" left & right, .05" top & bottom What I would like in every text box I create is: Line color: No line Layout: Square Internal margins: 0" all I can't determine WHERE I go to change the default settings, although I have a strong hunch that the settings are stored in normal.dot. I also seem to remember that at one time the default layout was in fact "square", so I think that I or a co-worker must have changed it at some point, accidentally or intentionally. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Changing default text box settings
Note that the text box defaults is set for the current document, only.
If you want to save the settings for future use, you can "Set AutoShape Defaults" for a text box in a template file, and use that template. -- Stefan Blom "Marlene McCall" wrote in message news Garfield: Yes, it works. You saved me oodles of time. Thanks! Marlene ********************** "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Not sure about Word 2000, but in Word 2002 once you get the text box formatted as you like, left click once on the text box to select it, then right click on an edge of the text box, and left click on Set AutoShape Defaults. Marlene McCall wrote: I have Word 2000. I'm working on a project that will require a LOT of text boxes. When I draw a text box, I want it to automatically have certain settings. For instance, currently the defaults seem to be: Line color: Black Layout: In front of text Internal margins: .1" left & right, .05" top & bottom What I would like in every text box I create is: Line color: No line Layout: Square Internal margins: 0" all I can't determine WHERE I go to change the default settings, although I have a strong hunch that the settings are stored in normal.dot. I also seem to remember that at one time the default layout was in fact "square", so I think that I or a co-worker must have changed it at some point, accidentally or intentionally. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Changing default text box settings
And also be very aware that the defaults are for *all* AutoShapes, not just
text boxes. If you set your text boxes for No Line and No Fill, then you'll need to remember what you've done the next time you try to draw a circle or rectangle and it disappears as soon as you let go of it! -- 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. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that the text box defaults is set for the current document, only. If you want to save the settings for future use, you can "Set AutoShape Defaults" for a text box in a template file, and use that template. -- Stefan Blom "Marlene McCall" wrote in message news Garfield: Yes, it works. You saved me oodles of time. Thanks! Marlene ********************** "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Not sure about Word 2000, but in Word 2002 once you get the text box formatted as you like, left click once on the text box to select it, then right click on an edge of the text box, and left click on Set AutoShape Defaults. Marlene McCall wrote: I have Word 2000. I'm working on a project that will require a LOT of text boxes. When I draw a text box, I want it to automatically have certain settings. For instance, currently the defaults seem to be: Line color: Black Layout: In front of text Internal margins: .1" left & right, .05" top & bottom What I would like in every text box I create is: Line color: No line Layout: Square Internal margins: 0" all I can't determine WHERE I go to change the default settings, although I have a strong hunch that the settings are stored in normal.dot. I also seem to remember that at one time the default layout was in fact "square", so I think that I or a co-worker must have changed it at some point, accidentally or intentionally. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Changing default text box settings
Good point. Maybe creating an AutoText entry, as suggested by Graham
Mayor, is the best approach, after all. -- Stefan Blom "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... And also be very aware that the defaults are for *all* AutoShapes, not just text boxes. If you set your text boxes for No Line and No Fill, then you'll need to remember what you've done the next time you try to draw a circle or rectangle and it disappears as soon as you let go of it! -- 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. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that the text box defaults is set for the current document, only. If you want to save the settings for future use, you can "Set AutoShape Defaults" for a text box in a template file, and use that template. -- Stefan Blom "Marlene McCall" wrote in message news Garfield: Yes, it works. You saved me oodles of time. Thanks! Marlene ********************** "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Not sure about Word 2000, but in Word 2002 once you get the text box formatted as you like, left click once on the text box to select it, then right click on an edge of the text box, and left click on Set AutoShape Defaults. Marlene McCall wrote: I have Word 2000. I'm working on a project that will require a LOT of text boxes. When I draw a text box, I want it to automatically have certain settings. For instance, currently the defaults seem to be: Line color: Black Layout: In front of text Internal margins: .1" left & right, .05" top & bottom What I would like in every text box I create is: Line color: No line Layout: Square Internal margins: 0" all I can't determine WHERE I go to change the default settings, although I have a strong hunch that the settings are stored in normal.dot. I also seem to remember that at one time the default layout was in fact "square", so I think that I or a co-worker must have changed it at some point, accidentally or intentionally. Any help would be appreciated. |
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