Re: Text in text boxes: vertical centre
From: Oz Springs (oz.springs_at_anywhere.com)
Date: 12/04/04
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Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:46:37 +0000
Hi John
Thank you for this detailed comment. I have no problem with vertically
centring the text box itself on a page or wherever. The problem is centring
the text within it.
In PowerPoint all you need to do is select the text box, right click and
select ³Format AutoShape...², click on ³Text Box² tab then choose ³Middle²
or ³Middle Centered² from the pull-down menu called ³Text anchor Point².
There is no equivalent in Word.
> 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.)
My main gripe with drawing objects in Word is that they are anchored to a
paragraph mark. Text boxes and their contents are totally invisible if the
document is opened in galley or normal view and can be deleted without any
warning whatsoever by deleting the paragraph mark(s) to which they are
anchored.
Irrespective of whether text boxes and other graphic objects are in a hidden
graphics layer or not, they should not be anchored to the text area in such
a fragile way.
Kind regards
Oz
PS I guess I¹ll be using workaround 2) suggested by JE McGimpsey. A table
field within the vertically inflexible text box. Now why didn¹t I think of
that?
On 4/12/04 22:24, in article BDD88439.D902%john@mcghie.name, "John McGhie"
<john@mcghie.name> wrote:
> 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 Word¹s.
>>
>>
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