Locking a text box?

[Rasmus]

Hello ...

I have a text box on the right side of my document. My problem is that it
moves depending on the remaining text. Can I in any way lock the box so that
it will always be in the same place no matter how the remaining text forms
themselves.

Thanks in advance, Rasmus

 

[Stefan Blom]

Make sure to position the text box relative to the page edges, not relative
to text paragraphs. For more specific instructions, tell us your version of
Word.

Note that regardless of the chosen Text Wrapping option, if the paragraph
containing the text box anchor moves to the following page, so will the text
box. Therefore, you should anchor the box to a paragraph that is unlikely to
move, such as a paragraph in the middle of the page.

If the text box should be on the *first* page of the document, only, you can
anchor it to the first page header.

 

[Rasmus]

I want my text box to become a permanent part of the document. So if I delete
the remaining text, the text box stays. A bit like the header and footer.

 

[CyberTaz]

That can't realistically be done. As Stefan wrote, a floating text box is
always anchored to a paragraph. If you delete the paragraph you delete the
text box. Word documents are a text based structure, not object oriented, so
there are no 'pages' on which to fix floating objects.

The only viable workaround is to add additional section breaks in order to
create a separate Header for that one page section & put the text box in
that Header... But even that is dependent on the existence of the section &
the content of the document. Ergo: Usually more trouble than it's worth.

You're looking for page layout capability & Word is not a page layout
application. You might consider using Publisher or something comparable for
documents that require absolute positioning of objects independent of text.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Rasmus]

Word 2003...

I have found out how to fix the text box relative to the remaining text. I
however still want my text box to become a permanent part of the document.
What to do?

 

[Stefan Blom]

As I wrote, the best you can do is anchor the text box to a header
paragraph. The first page header would be the most convenient one. See also
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/AnchorToHeader.htm.

If you are creating a letterhead (or something similar to a letterhead), see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm.

 

[Rasmus]

Many thanks for your reply
Is it possible to do something else? Can you possibly replace the box with
something else?

My wish is to get a "sider", lol (Not a header /footer)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You've already been referred to
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/AnchorToHeader.htm, which increasingly
sounds like what you need.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org