How to make words "straddle" two lines?

[wal]

Word 2003

Does anyone know a way to manipulate line spacing and character
raising/lowering (and whatever other feature might work) to make words
"straddle" two lines evenly? For example, say you want to show that
the verb/predicate of the following sentence is the same irrespective
of the subject (ignore the silliness of the example):

He ran away.
She

If I want to place the "ran away" exactly between the "He" and "She"
vertically, WITHOUT forcing the "She" to move down, how can I do so?
I tried setting the line spacing (in the Paragraph dialog) to Exact
and then lowering "ran away" in the Font dialog, but the bottom half
of "ran away" disappears. Other combinations of line spacing and
raising/lowering characters force the "She" line down, etc. These
features likewise don't work if I start with three lines:

He
ran away.
She

I'd still like to have the whole thing basically single-spaced.

The only thing that worked was a 2 x 2 table, with the two cells of
the second column (containing "ran away") merged and set to Center
Vertically. This is cumbersome, especially fine-tuning the width of
table cells. Is there any way to do this without resorting to a
table? Thanks.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

You could type "He" on one line, "She" on the next line, and "ran away"
in a text box, right-click on the text box and format it with "in front
of text" text wrapping style, and then hold down the Alt key and drag
the text box to the desired position relative to the two lines you first
typed.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

You might also experiment with the FormatPhoneticGuide command. It can be
used to build an EQ field that saves a fair amount of experimention.

To use this command, use Tools - Customize - Keyboard (All commands), and
assign FormatPhoneticGuide (FPG) to a keystroke (you could put it onto a
toolbar or menu, instead if you like).

Select the base word, then press your FPG key. A dialog will guide you
through the setup. If you need it in a box, you can apply border formatting
just to the target words.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'd be more inclined just to write the EQ field by hand--or use Equation
Editor to build the whole thing.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I guess we all work differently. Personally, I find that it's easier to work
from an existing field.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com

 

[wal]

You could type "He" on one line, "She" on the next line, and "ran away"
in a text box, right-click on the text box and format it with "in front
of text" text wrapping style, and then hold down the Alt key and drag
the text box to the desired position relative to the two lines you first
typed.










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Thanks, everyone. FormatPhoneticGuide forces the lines apart, as
least as far as I experimented. Equation Editor and EQ would seem to
have a bit of a learning curve. I'll try textboxes for now. Thanks
also for the tip re the Alt key. It also works for fine adjustment of
table column widths.

 

[CyberTaz]

Another thought:

Use a two column table with "He" in the first row of Column 1, "She" in the
second row of Column one. Put "ran away" in the second column, merge the 2
cells in column two & apply vertical centering (Table Properties - Cell) to
the merged cell. Remove the Borders & adjust the column widths.