Flowing text around frames

[G.G. Biggar, Jr.]

I am using Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 Pro platform.

The document that I am preparing contains numerous frames, each containing a
picture. The text/frames are set within two columns, and the text is in a
Justified format. However, the line that appears immediately above each
frame is Left-Justified, even though the paragraph shows a Justified format.
Is there a way to force this particular line into a Justified format -- for
appearance purposes?

Also, there are pages where I have several frames (with pictures) on one
page. I would like to exclude any text from appearing on these pages. I
have tried dragging the frame boundaries to use up blank space, but
sometimes this bumps a frame onto the next page. If I continually hit the
Enter key to move text onto the next page, this will usually work, until I
decide to add text ahead of the frames in a subsequent revision. Ideally, I
would like to place several pictures within one frame, but I don't seem to
be able to move the pictures around within the fame.

Thanks for any and all assistance.

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi G.G.,

I am using Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 Pro platform.

The document that I am preparing contains numerous frames, each containing a
picture. The text/frames are set within two columns, and the text is in a
Justified format. However, the line that appears immediately above each
frame is Left-Justified, even though the paragraph shows a Justified format.
Is there a way to force this particular line into a Justified format -- for
appearance purposes?

Typically, Word will NOT pull the last line of any justified paragraph "apart"
to make it fill to the end of a column. You can force it to do so by pressing
Shift+Enter and the end of the line (and then move the frame up to cover any
white space you don't want).

Also, there are pages where I have several frames (with pictures) on one
page. I would like to exclude any text from appearing on these pages. I
have tried dragging the frame boundaries to use up blank space, but
sometimes this bumps a frame onto the next page. If I continually hit the
Enter key to move text onto the next page, this will usually work, until I
decide to add text ahead of the frames in a subsequent revision. Ideally, I
would like to place several pictures within one frame, but I don't seem to
be able to move the pictures around within the fame.

No, there's no way to make a page "no text". At least ONE paragraph is
required on each page. As any pictures or frames on the page require a
paragraph as an anchor point, there just no way around this. You can format
the following text paragraph with "Page break before" (Format/Paragraph/Lines
and Page breaks) to save having to play around with press ENTER. And also
format that single paragraph mark to which the frames are anchored the same.
That way the pictures will always be on their own page (but preceding text
will not be able to flow automatically to the page following the pictures).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[G.G. Biggar, Jr.]

Hi, Cindy --

I tried playing with the Shift + Enter. Where I have a frame in the
rightmost column, often at the bottom of the page, performing this operation
on the last line of text above the frame will either bump that frame to the
next page, or it will bump subsequent frames on subsequent pages. It does
Adjust the line, however, so with a little bit of gamesmanship, I just may
get it to work.

Thanks, much!

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi G.G.,

I tried playing with the Shift + Enter. Where I have a frame in the
rightmost column, often at the bottom of the page, performing this operation
on the last line of text above the frame will either bump that frame to the
next page, or it will bump subsequent frames on subsequent pages. It does
Adjust the line, however, so with a little bit of gamesmanship, I just may
get it to work.

Glad it at least looks viable

You could try formatting that last line that Shift+Enter creates to a very
small point size (not sure how it will affect the rest of the paragraph,
though).

I hesitate recommending you to move and lock the frame's ANCHOR to a different
paragraph (frame and paragraph will always remain on the same page, together),
because this could result in the frame shoving itself into the margin. But it
might be worth a try...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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