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MS Office Forum / Word / Page Layout / May 2004anchored textbox moves when text goes to Page 2
Hi, I spent almost 3 hours trying to figure that out. I have a letterhead as a template and on Page 1 I have on the left side a textbox, which is anchored and 1.3 INCHES WIDE AND 8 inches high. Everytime I start a document and it runs on the second page this textbox moves to the second, 3rd page etc. Actually some times it didn't. Like 1 out of ten times. Who knows what I can do. Thanks This can be caused by anchoring the text box to a paragraph instead of to the page. Try this: Right click on the text box, then left click on Format Text Box | Advanced | Picture Position | Horizontal Absolute position: <insert dimension> to the right of: Page | Vertical Absolute position: <insert dimension> to the right of: Page. Does this fix the problem? > Hi, > I spent almost 3 hours trying to figure that out. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Thanks That probably won't fix the problem, because the textbox is still anchored to a paragraph -- it's just positioned with respect to the page. A floating object *cannot* be on a different page than its anchor, so if the paragraph moves to the next page then the textbox will go too. Instead, first remove the existing textbox. Now go to File > Page Setup > Layout and click Different First Page. Open the first-page header pane, which puts the cursor there. Click Insert > Text Box and draw the new textbox in the size and position of the old one. (A text box or other object that's anchored in the header can be anywhere on the page, not just in the header area.) Finally, close the header pane. For a more extensive description, see http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm.  SignatureRegards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org > This can be caused by anchoring the text box to a paragraph instead of > to the page. Try this: [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >> Thanks Dear Jay, I'm almost totally happy with this solution. There is one more problem. I set the margin on the first page: 0.1 left and 0.3 inch right. Now I want to change the margin for the following pages to for ex. 1 inch left and right. Now every time I go to change the page setup either all pages are changed or it makes sections and the textbox is on both pages. I am sure there is a trick. Thanks so much Octavee > That probably won't fix the problem, because the textbox is still anchored > to a paragraph -- it's just positioned with respect to the page. A floating [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > >> > >> Thanks You can go either of two ways with this. Each has its drawbacks, so you have to decide which is more workable. 1. Leave the margins at the first-page settings throughout the document. To "fake" wider margins from page 2 onward, go into the header on page 2 (if your template only has one page so far, insert a manual page break temporarily) and insert two text boxes, one on the left and one on the right. Set their text wrapping to Square or Tight, turn off their borders, and set them to "no fill". This will force the text on those pages to stay between the boxes, simulating margins. The drawback of this method is that, if you use paragraph indents, they may act erratically. 2. Let Word insert a section break where the margins change. To eliminate the extra text box on page 2, go into the page 2 header, click the Same As Previous button on the Header toolbar to turn it off, and delete the text box from that header (the one on page 1 will stay). The drawback of this one is that text won't automatically flow across the section break. >Dear Jay, > [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >> >> >> >> Thanks -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word Dear Jay, Thanks again for the fast answer Octavee > You can go either of two ways with this. Each has its drawbacks, so > you have to decide which is more workable. [quoted text clipped - 74 lines] > Jay Freedman > Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word |
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