Drawing a few city blocks

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Paula - 28 Mar 2004 17:39 GMT

I need to draw 9 city blocks, with streets labeled and
with the ability to type inside rectangles inside those
city blocks to identify certain buildings. So far I've
managed only to draw 9 text boxes but have not been able
to type street names (need 4 rotated of course). Has
anyone done this who would be willing to walk me through
it?

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Bg - 28 Mar 2004 18:08 GMT

If you made a "regular box", right click on it. This will give you an option
to add text.. If you need to make the text vertical, go to Format (top tool
bar) and select text direction. If you need to rotate the text, so it
follows the box. Then use this site for some tips.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/UpsideDownText.htm

Hope this helps.
Bg

> I need to draw 9 city blocks, with streets labeled and
> with the ability to type inside rectangles inside those
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> anyone done this who would be willing to walk me through
> it?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 28 Mar 2004 23:21 GMT

You will probably find this a lot easier to do in Excel using the options
under Format Cell in which you can merge cells, control text position and
rotate text.

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>I need to draw 9 city blocks, with streets labeled and
> with the ability to type inside rectangles inside those
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> anyone done this who would be willing to walk me through
> it?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 29 Mar 2004 00:38 GMT

Easier still in Publisher! Although you need individual text boxes for the
street names, building identifiers, etc., it's easy to create the streets
this way (would probably work in Word as well if you use the drawing canvas:

1. For each street, draw a line, creating a grid.

2. Group the lines and set the line width to something large (say 12
points).

3. Duplicate the group, change the line width to something smaller (say 10
points), and change the line color to white.

4. Align the white grid over the black grid until just a 1-pt line is
showing on each side of the street.

5. Insert text boxes over the grid for the street names.

A designer taught me this trick for drawing parallel lines, and I have found
it comes in very handy (works nicely for multi-colored borders as well).

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> You will probably find this a lot easier to do in Excel using the options
> under Format Cell in which you can merge cells, control text position and
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> > anyone done this who would be willing to walk me through
> > it?

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EmileeSuzanne - 29 Mar 2004 23:57 GMT

I agree that it would be easier in Publisher -- or PowerPoint is grea
for that type of thing. Word's drawing capability is limited an
sometimes frustrating

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