Hi David,
Word is not a page layout program, it's text reflow. MS Office Publisher is the page layout oriented member of the Office products
family.
In Word, graphic objects, text boxes or otherwise tie basically to a paragraph of (hopefully related) text unless in a section/page
header/footer, so the picture can 'fall off' a specific page if the paragraph they're attached to moves, but the idea is that it
stays with its context. They have an 'anchor' that lets you move them to a different attach (text paragraph) point by dragging
(same as in prior versions).
Office 2007 has a new graphics engine and Word has, for better and worse, been endowed with pieces of both the new and old engines,
so there are both improvements and issues with graphics handling.
Corrupted documents from text boxes may be better with the file handling in the new XML file formats, but overall scroll speed and
document editing may be slower.
Columns are a 'page setup' function. While they can't be implemented directly in a text box, you can group two text boxes (or more)
together and use the Textbox 'link' feature so that text overflows from one box to the next and then turn off the text box borders;
or you can place borderless text boxes in adjoining table cells and turn off the joining border between the table cells.
May be better to go with first hand experience though if you're working with graphics heavy documents. You can download a 60 day
trial copy of Office 2007
http://trymicrosoftoffice.com
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Does anyone know if Word has improved its handling of graphics and text boxes
in 2007?
Specifically, in previous versions I found the following limitations: 1)
overuse of text boxes tended to crash the program, 2) text in text boxes
could not be made into columns, 3) text boxes could not be anchored to a
specific page or a specific place on a page, as they can in publishing
programs like Quark.
Thanks!<<
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
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