Problems with anchored text boxes

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nickblaze

Hello,

Thanks to this forum, I've been able to create text boxes which ar
anchored to an alternating footer (odd/even). It looks great to hav
the boxes alternate sides of a two-column page at the bottom left the
bottom right respectively.

Here's my problem: I would like to input new text in each text box. Th
new text is a quotation taken from the page on which the text box sits


My problem is that the text wants to repeat just like the footer it
anchored into. So the text in the text box on page one is linked to th
text in the text box on page three.

I first thought I would just break the 'link forward' between the tex
boxes, but they aren't linked forward to each other. The repeating is
function of the repeating and alternating footer.

Does anyone know how to set it up so that I can still have th
alternating text boxes, but without the problem of the repeating tex
within it?

Thanks in advance,
Nic
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Just trying to get noticed.

Would someone please answer?
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Daiya Mitchell

By definition, the footer repeats on every page. Since the text is inside a
text box anchored to the header, it too is part of the footer.

However, since you say that the quotation in the text box is taken from the
text on the page, if you format that text in the main page with a particular
style, it *should* work as you want if you put a StyleRef field in the text
box instead, and then the StyleRef field will pick up the last text
formatted in that style. You will have to set this in both the odd and even
footer.

Look up StyleRef in Help, and if you don't know what styles are, see here:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/TipsOnStyles.html
You can use a character style that doesn't change the appearance at all.

See also the "beyond numbering" section at the end of this page, for more on
StyleRef:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NumberingFrontMatter.htm

DM
 
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Daiya Mitchell

However, since you say that the quotation in the text box is taken from the
text on the page, if you format that text in the main page with a particular
style, it *should* work as you want if you put a StyleRef field in the text
box instead, and then the StyleRef field will pick up the last text
formatted in that style.
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Oops, my mistake! I don't think StyleRef will work inside a text box. It
might work inside a frame, but I am not totally sure about that either.

DM

PS. It took more than 18 hours for my last posts on this thread to show up
at wordforums.com
 
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