Re: align FL text to bottom right of text box

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"Freelancer BJK" <FreelancerBJK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> SVC,
>
> We appreciate your help.
>
> I tested your suggestion and with left-justified type the box expands to
the
> right as the text gets longer. We need it to expand to the left even
though
> the type is left-justified.
>
> We have found ways to make Word do many things that we didn't think it
could
> do, but this may be asking too much of the program. I don't think I could
do
> this in a page layout program (Quark, Pagemaker) or vector drawing program
> (Illustrator, Freehand) either.
>
> "SVC" wrote:
>
> > Try this to see if this helps:
> >
> > Right click your text box, select Format text box, select the Text box
tab.
> > Deselect Word wrap text in AutoShape and select Resize AutoShape to fit
text.
> >
> > This will let your text box expand to the left as you enter text and
will
> > grow the text box to match the length of the longest line of text in the
box.
> >
> > "Freelancer BJK" wrote:
> >
> > > SVC,
> > >
> > > Thanks for taking the time to help us out!
> > >
> > > This problem is complex and I don't think I made it clear. There will
be
> > > hundreds of these documents generated. The two-line text will vary
greatly
> > > in length each time. Even though the text is left-justified, the end
of the
> > > longest of the two lines (no matter how long or short) must
automatically be
> > > a specified distance from the right of the page.
> > >
> > > This would be easy if the text were right-justified. The lines of
text
> > > would just automatically extend to the left as needed.
> > >
> > > "SVC" wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can create a textbox and then adjust the internal margins.
Click Format
> > > > TextBox, select the TextBox, and set the right and bottom margins to
..5".
> > > > You can position your textbox by clicking on the Layout tab, select
Square if
> > > > you want text to wrap around the textbox, or select In front of text
if you
> > > > don't, and select the Right button under Horizontal alignment, which
will
> > > > bring the textbox to the right hand margin line. Then you can move
the
> > > > textbox down to the right hand corner.

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