RE: align FL text to bottom right of text box

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SVC,

Thanks for your suggestion. I got a chance to test it out today.

When you align the box to the right, it lines up with either the right edge
of the margin, column, or page, according to which you choose. You don't
seem to be able to use absolute positioning. I would guess you control the
position from left to right by choosing margin for it to align to, then
changing the margins.

It almost works! We could make the type be left-justified. As we typed in
a name the letters would appear on the right tucked up to the right side of
the text box and the box expanded to the left as needed. Yay! Until the box
came up against the left hand margin. Then the type broke onto a second line
(a good thing). But now there were several blank letter spaces between the
last word of the first line and the right edge of the text box.

To give an example, say you typed in "Microsoft Word 2003 for Windows".
When you got a few letters into "Windows" the software broke the word onto
the second line. Now "Microsoft" and "Windows"were flush up against the left
hand margin and there was a space about three letters wide between "for" and
the right of the text box.

We had already given up and told the client they would have to settle for
right-justified type. But I was delighted to find your reply because it's
not too late to change things. Unfortunately, most of the names we have to
enter will be two lines long, so this won't work.

But thanks for thinking of us!

"SVC" wrote:

> Check one thing to see if this makes a difference.
>
> Format > Text Box, and on the Layout tab select any but In line with text as
> the Wrapping style and select Right as the Horizontal alignment. (If I
> select In line with text, I get the behavior you have described).
.

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