Text Box margins

[Larry B]

I have Word 97. I was putting a flyer together using Text Boxes and ran into
a problem. When using fully justified text in a text box with fonts that are
italicized or naturally have some letters that lean to the right (like "f")
a small amount of text is cut off on the right side margin only. Just enough
to make the right edge look weird. Maybe the rightmost 10% of a letter. With
upright block fonts, there is no impact... with italicized fonts, every
letter is affected.

I have played with the text box margins but that only pushed the margin away
from the text box edge, it had no affect on this issue, though.

Any suggestions?? Thanks, Lar

 

[Guest]

You could put a table cell inside a text box and remove the borders from the
table cell, and then type your text into the table cell. This would keep the
text sufficiently far away from the textbox border so that it doesn't appear
cropped.

 

[Larry B]

You could put a table cell inside a text box and remove the borders from the
table cell, and then type your text into the table cell. This would keep the
text sufficiently far away from the textbox border so that it doesn't appear
cropped.

I understand what you are saying but the proximity of the text to the text
box border is not a factor. If I increase the text box internal margain it
just pushes the text further into the text box, but the issue of the edge of
the text being cut off is unaffected. It is just cut off further away from
the border.

Thanks

 

[David Mathi Raj via OfficeKB.com]

Hi! Larry,

Genine was right !!

The text inside the Text-Box should be placed inside a TABLE CELL, in other words, convert the text of the box to TABLE. Then your problem is solved. I tested and found Genine method is working fine.

David

 

[Larry B]

Hi! Larry,

Genine was right !!

The text inside the Text-Box should be placed inside a TABLE CELL, in

other words, convert the text of the box to TABLE. Then your problem is
solved. I tested and found Genine method is working fine.

David

I tried two things. I converted it to TABLE and to FRAME. Both seemed to fix
it.

Now for the obvious. What are they vs a TEXT BOX??

Thanks, Larry

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Larry,

other words, convert the text of the box to TABLE. Then your problem is
solved. I tested and found Genine method is working fine.
I tried two things. I converted it to TABLE and to FRAME. Both seemed to fix
it.

Now for the obvious. What are they vs a TEXT BOX??

A textbox is a graphical object, located in Word's "Drawing layer". It's also
part of the OFFICE drawing tools; IOW, it's not an integral part of Word. So
things don't always work quite the same way

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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