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Adding Sidebars When designing your document, you may want to use sidebars like you see in magazines and some books. This tip explains the easiest way to create your own sidebars, using text boxes. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Creating Sideheads A sidehead can be used as a layout technique for a document. You can create sideheads in a document by using text boxes, as described in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

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

Deleting All Text in Linked Text Boxes Text boxes are nothing but graphic objects that can hold text. Deleting the text in text boxes—without deleting the text box itself—can prove a bit tricky, particularly if you have quite a few text boxes in your document. This tip explains how you can delete the text. 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

Resizing a Text Box or Frame Text boxes and frames allow you to “segment” information in your document and lay it out differently. You can easily resize these boxes and frames by following the simple instructions in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Spell Checking with Text Boxes How Word spell-checks the text within a text box can be a bit confusing. The text boxes are actually spell-checked after your regular text. This tip explains what that is, and also discusses some ways you can modify your layout to have text spell-checked differently. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Understanding Frames and Text Boxes What is the difference between frames and text boxes? Why use one over the other? Find out here. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

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