Setting text field width as wide as page

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Scott Steiner

Hi,

I inserted a text field. This text field should always be as wide as the
page it is placed on i.e. ranging from the left margin to the right
margin. How can I accomplish this? Until now I only see a possibility to
explicitly set the width of the text field. And incidently, how can I
find the exact width of the page anyway inorder to set that value as the
width of my text field?

System: Word 2000, Windows XP Home

Thanks!
 
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Insert the text formfield in the cell of a one column table whose width is
the page width.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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Scott Steiner

Doug said:
Insert the text formfield in the cell of a one column table whose width is
the page width.
Click to expand...

But now how do I make the textfield span 100% over the width of the one
column table?
 
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

I know you are saying that you want it to span the width of the page, but
what are you really wanting to do?

The text field will take up whatever room is required by the data that is
entered into it.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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Scott Steiner

Doug said:
I know you are saying that you want it to span the width of the page, but
what are you really wanting to do?
Click to expand...

I want to have a decorated heading that automatically adapts to and
spans the width of the page. Basically it should look like a narrow bar
that has the heading text written in it and that has a certain
background colour.

But I think I got it now! I just dropped the text field completely and
simply used a 1x1 table like you proposed and entered the heading in the
cell of the table.

It seems that tables automatically span the width of the page, right? At
least it looks like it, I tried to alter the page margins and the table
altered its size accordingly.
 
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Stefan Blom

A table cell won't be necessary if all you need is a border and some
background color; you can apply this to the paragraph itself via
Format>Borders and Shading.

There are times when a table is useful for positioning text, though:
For example, if you want the first body text below the heading to
start at a fixed vertical distance (regardless of the number of text
lines occupied by the heading), you can put the heading in a table
cell whose height is fixed.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message
 
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Scott Steiner

Stefan said:
A table cell won't be necessary if all you need is a border and some
background color; you can apply this to the paragraph itself via
Format>Borders and Shading.
Click to expand...
[...]

Excellent tip, thanks! I guess that is the fastest and most flexible
solution, exactly what I was looking for! :)
 
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Stefan Blom

Glad I could help.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message
Stefan said:
A table cell won't be necessary if all you need is a border and
some
background color; you can apply this to the paragraph itself via
Format>Borders and Shading.
Click to expand...
[...]

Excellent tip, thanks! I guess that is the fastest and most flexible
solution, exactly what I was looking for! :)
Click to expand...
 
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