Topic: Text Boxes

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Adding a Drop Shadow to a Text Box Got a text box? Want it to pop off the page? Try this. Microsoft Word versions: 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Centering a Text Box Different ways you can move a text box to the center of the page. Microsoft Word versions: 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Changing Defaults for Text Boxes and Callouts One of the great uses to which you can put Word’s AutoText feature is to provide “default” text boxes and callouts. This tip explains why you might want to do that, and how to go about doing it. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Changing Orientation of a Text Box Do you need to rotate a text box by ninety degrees? Unfortunately you cannot do this in Word, but you can change the apparent orientation of a text box by modifying its size. This tip explains the easiest way to make the change. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Creating See-through Text Boxes Want clear areas of your text boxes to be transparent? Here's how to do it. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Creating Usable Figure Captions Many people add both images and figure captions within text boxes so they can be easily positioned within a document. Doing so, however, has drawbacks as the figure captions are not as easily accessible for cross referencing or for inclusion in a Table of Figures. This tip describes how you can rectify this situation so that the captions are again usable. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Find and Replace in Text Boxes Find and Replace can work great, but not necessarily for text within text boxes. This tip discusses all the ins and outs of working with text boxes when it comes to finding text within them. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Including Text Box Text In Word Counts If you use text boxes in the layout of your documents, you should know that any word counts you perform do not include any words in those text boxes. If you want to include those words in your counts, you need the information in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Inserting a Text Box Text boxes are a great way to implement non-standard ways of laying out your document. They allow you to put text at virtually any point on a page, and have it be treated as a graphic element. This tip explains the different ways you can add text boxes to your documents. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

No-border Text Boxes by Default If you don’t like the way that the default text boxes are formatted in Word, you can make changes to the text box attributes so they appear the way you want. This tip explains how to do this, along with one caveat about what else is affected by your change. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Repeating the First Column of a Table Excel lets you easily repeat a column or two at the left side of a table. Word won’t let you do that. Instead, you must use a workaround that involves the placement of a text box that is anchored to your header. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Wrapping Text around a Graphic in a Text Box Word allows you to wrap text around a graphic or around a text box, but it won’t allow you to wrap text in a text box around a graphic in a text box. This may seem confusing, but the explanation is quite simple, once you understand how Word deals with objects in a document. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

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