Formatting pictures inserted into a text box?

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I'm new at this a bit. I want to make a newsletter for my crew. I downloaded a template from the Microsoft website. It is designed with text boxes. When I insert a graphic ("insert>picture>from file") I can't see it. I learned to change the auto format of the text box to "clear formatting", then I see the graphic. However, when I right-click it and try to format it, it won't let me change the text-wrapping. What I want to do is put a graphic inside a text box and have the text wrap around that graphic. Any suggestions?? Chris
 
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I'm new at this a bit. I want to make a newsletter for my crew. I downloaded a template from the Microsoft website. It is designed with text boxes. When I insert a graphic ("insert>picture>from file") I can't see it. I learned to change the auto format of the text box to "clear formatting", then I see the graphic. However, when I right-click it and try to format it, it won't let me change the text-wrapping. What I want to do is put a graphic inside a text box and have the text wrap around that graphic.
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That won't work. Textboxes don't support text wrap formatting.

Which version of Word are we dealing with?

(Note: for this particular question, the word.drawing.graphics group might have been more appropriate)

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

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Cindy, Thank you for answering
I have Office XP (which I think is Word 2002). I did our newsletter 4 years ago and as I remember I used Word Perfect and not Word because of the difficulty of dropping pictures in easily. The template I downloaded from the Microsoft web site has a few graphics in it (inside text boxes) but I'm not sure how they did it. I will examine the template more closely and then I'll go to word.drawing.graphics afterwards (I used this forum as I am a "newuser"). Thanks for your help! Chris in Maine
 
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Word 2002
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In this case, I'd look at placing the graphics in TABLES,
because you can use textwrap in tables. And tables can
"float" like textboxes. A bit tricky, but it should work.

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

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