Text box internal margin

[Sophia]

I set the internal margin of a text box to zero on all four sides. Yet, I
still have white space between the top-most edge of my text and the border of
the text box. Anybody know what to do about that?

 

[Jezebel]

Format > Paragraph > Space Above.

 

[Peo]

Even if you've selected no extra space above a paragraph, and no internal
margin in your textbox, you still cannot always get the letters right up
under the upper edge of your textbox. The letter "a" can't reach all the way
to the "roof", becaus there need to be "space" for the capital "A" to be
visibly taller. Even normal capital letters don't go all the way to the top,
because they need to "leave room" for the odd european accent letters, like
"É" or "Å".

For that reason, if it's paramount for you to get the text really close to
that edge, you may need to experiment with "funny" typefaces where all the
letters go "all the way to the top" of their allotted space...

 

[Sophia]

Well, between the two comments below, I managed to find what I was looking
for.

I forgot to mention that my text is rotated 90 degrees so the white space at
the "top" is actually to the right of the text itself. With that in mind, I
went to Format, Paragraph. Didn't find "space above" but noticed the "Indent"
was the only value greater than zero. Set that to zero and now the text is
nice and tight inside the border of the text box. So, thanks for pointing me
in the right direction anyhow!

 

[Terri Stafford]

Deviating so far away from the Office 2003-2007 product must be the worst mistake Microsoft ever made. Vista was bad, I was told Windows 2010 was an improvement; however, i beg to differ. Microsoft made a classic mistake fixing a thing that wasn't broke. I am certain I will never find a way to set my internal margins to fit my text box format, don't try it, it ain't happenin' & nobody has that much time to crack the code if they are trying to get any work done.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Have you read the replies earlier in this thread? In particular, you can reduce the line spacing and spacing before to get the text closer to the top edge of the text box. Also, note that text will be easier to read with a bit of white space around it.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Terri Stafford" wrote in message
Deviating so far away from the Office 2003-2007 product must be the worst mistake Microsoft ever made. Vista was bad, I was told Windows 2010 was an improvement; however, i beg to differ. Microsoft made a classic mistake fixing a thing that wasn't broke. I am certain I will never find a way to set my internal margins to fit my text box format, don't try it, it ain't happenin' & nobody has that much time to crack the code if they are trying to get any work done.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Not to mention that the "top" in this case turned out to be the left side,
which was indented. If the OP had, at the outset, mentioned that the text
was rotated in the text box, this solution might have turned up sooner. In
any case, Terri's rant is not called for here, as (almost) nothing about
formatting text boxes has changed from Word 2003 to 2010.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Well, obviously I haven't read through all the messages in the thread.

Good point, though, about the formatting of text boxes. Believe it or not, but not everything can be blamed on the ribbon interface.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
Not to mention that the "top" in this case turned out to be the left side,
which was indented. If the OP had, at the outset, mentioned that the text
was rotated in the text box, this solution might have turned up sooner. In
any case, Terri's rant is not called for here, as (almost) nothing about
formatting text boxes has changed from Word 2003 to 2010.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org