Re: Text in text boxes: vertical centre
From: John McGhie (john_at_mcghie.name)
Date: 12/04/04
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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:24:09 +1100
No: Because of the difference in the fundamental concept of a document
versus a "presentation".
A "presentation" is a kind of "picture". Pictures are built on a "canvas"
so when you look at a "blank" area in a picture, what you are looking at is
the "canvas". There is "something there" onto which you can place objects.
In Word, when you look at a blank space, there is "nothing there". It's
"empty". So there is no "canvas" to prop other things on.
A Text Box in Word is exactly the same thing and behaves exactly the same
way as it does in PowerPoint, it sits on a canvas in the drawing layer and
you can centre it vertically or horizontally on the page by adjusting its
properties. (The only difference is that in Word, the concept of the
drawing canvas is hidden from the user.)
Hit the Help and read up on Graphics. This is one time I will tell people
to use the Contents tab in the Help rather than the Search tab: open the
Contents and navigate to the Graphics section.
Read every topic.
The graphics abilities in Word, PowerPoint and Excel are actually exactly
the same : it's an external application that is common to all three. It is
quite surprisingly powerful and capable, but you need to learn all about it.
Increasingly in business I see that corporations are no longer supplying a
graphics program to their desktop computers, because they know there is
normally no need for it. It's built-in to Microsoft Office.
Time spent really getting to know the capabilities of Microsoft Office Draw
(which is no longer offered as a product in its own right) is well worth it.
Sure, you can fire up Illustrator or whatever and do wonderful things if you
have the time and money at your disposal. But for a few quick lines and
boxes to make a point in PowerPoint, nothing beats it.
Hopefully one of the things you will see in the Help is a suggestion that
you display the Drawing toolbar. When you do, a whole new world opens up
:-)
Hope this helps
On 4/12/04 11:45 PM, in article BDD761F7.DBD%oz.springs@anywhere.com, "Oz
Springs" <oz.springs@anywhere.com> wrote:
> Is there any way other than using paragraph marks or ³space before² in
> paragraph formatting to vertically centre text? This is possible in
> PowerPoint text boxes, but it does not seem to be the case for Wordıs.
>
>
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