Can You Re-"Style" a Text Box?

[Guest]

The default "margins" for a text box are annoying to me. I would like to use
"0" inches as the margin but have to re-create this layout every time I
create a text box. Is there any way to change the default settings for text
boxes?

Also, is there any way to add "Text Box" as a choice on the "right click"
drop-down menu in WORD? In other words, when you right click any-old-place
within a document, you have a number of choices regarding formattting, but
text box isn't one of them? Is there a way you can add text box to this
right-click feature?

Thank you!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Set the text box margins to 0", right-click, and choose Set AutoShape
Defaults. That will change the default for that document; to make it the
default for all documents subsequently created, you must make the change in
the document template. If this template is Normal.dot, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm for instructions on
how to find and edit it.

You can add anything you like to any shortcut menu in Word (see the relevant
part of
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm), but be
aware that another name for this menu is the "context" menu, and there are a
*lot* of contexts.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Jay Freedman]

After you change the margins (and any other settings) in the Format
Text Box dialog for one text box, display the Drawing toolbar, click
the Draw button at the left end, and click Set AutoShape Defaults. (A
text box is a specific type of AutoShape.) Note that the same defaults
will also apply to text inside any other kind of shape, such as a
circle.

Yes, you can add the Insert Text Box command to shortcut menus as
described in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm
(see especially steps 2c and 4). There are many shortcut menus, not
just one, so you may have to add it to several of them.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Jezebel]

In addition to the methods already suggested, you can also manually format a
textbox exactly as you want it, including the style for the enclosed text,
and save it as an AutoText entry. You can add AutoText entries to Word
menus, including the context (drop-down) menus.