Text Wrap around picture

[Darrell]

I am creating a newsletter ysing WORD for Mac OSX and would like to
incorporate a picture with text above, below and to one side of the
picture, similar to an newspaper article, As of now, text usually
starts at the middle of the picture, instead of at the top of the
picture. Is there a setting or parameter I need to alter for this
feature to work?

 

[Bates]

I am creating a newsletter ysing WORD for Mac OSX and would like to
incorporate a picture with text above, below and to one side of the
picture, similar to an newspaper article, As of now, text usually
starts at the middle of the picture, instead of at the top of the
picture. Is there a setting or parameter I need to alter for this
feature to work?

Hi Darrell,

Click on the picture, and then do one of two things:

1) If you have the formatting pallet visible, there should be a
section called "wrapping". Select "square" or "tight", and then
choose to wrap to the right side.

or

2) Under the format menu choose "format picture". Click the "layout"
tab and then choose the wrapping options.

Neil

 

[njstumbo]

Hi Darrell,

Click on the picture, and then do one of two things:

1) If you have the formatting pallet visible, there should be a
section called "wrapping". Select "square" or "tight", and then
choose towrapto the right side.

or

2) Under the format menu choose "format picture". Click the "layout"
tab and then choose the wrapping options.

Neil

Neil:

I am having this same problem. I've read the directions a bazillion
times. When I open the formatting pallette, it DOES NOT have
"wrapping" as an option. I go to Tools Menu, then Customize, then open
the formatting palette, click on 'wrapping." But that does not give me
wrapping as an option in the formatting palette. There are a lot of
'click-ables' in the Customize Formatting Palette, that do not appear
on the Formatting Palette. I have Word 2004 version 11.3.8. HELP! As
I jsut got put in charge of a newsletter as well!

Please and thanks for any advice!
Norma

 

[Clive Huggan]

Neil:

I am having this same problem. I've read the directions a bazillion
times. When I open the formatting pallette, it DOES NOT have
"wrapping" as an option. I go to Tools Menu, then Customize, then open
the formatting palette, click on 'wrapping." But that does not give me
wrapping as an option in the formatting palette. There are a lot of
'click-ables' in the Customize Formatting Palette, that do not appear
on the Formatting Palette. I have Word 2004 version 11.3.8. HELP! As
I jsut got put in charge of a newsletter as well!

Please and thanks for any advice!
Norma

Same here, Norma. However, I never use the Formatting Palette (except to
confirm what you said), so somebody well come along and contradict me.

Serious suggestion: buy Apple's iWork '08. Pages '08 is now a serious page
layout application for people wanting to do good newsletters/magazines but
who don't want to go to the industrial-strength applications. It has
wrapping etc on very accessible "Inspectors" (plural because you can display
several on the screen). You can pour in text from Word and it will respect
the styles you have used.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from North America and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[John McGhie]

Hi Norma:

You MUST click a PICTURE first. Otherwise the option will not show up.

Then look in the Formatting Palette for "Wrapping". Or: right-click the
graphic and choose Format>Picture>Layout and choose anything BUT "Inline
with text".

Once the object is "floating" (i.e. Not behaving like a large character
within the text layer) then all the other options will enable.

A Word document is like a three-layer sandwich, with the Text Layer in the
centre. Pictures (actually, *any* floating object: tables, drawings...)
can be "In front of the text" or "Behind the text".

Once they are, that can have a large number of "layers", so: this in front
of that in front of that but all of them behind this...

Hope this helps

Neil:

I am having this same problem. I've read the directions a bazillion
times. When I open the formatting pallette, it DOES NOT have
"wrapping" as an option. I go to Tools Menu, then Customize, then open
the formatting palette, click on 'wrapping." But that does not give me
wrapping as an option in the formatting palette. There are a lot of
'click-ables' in the Customize Formatting Palette, that do not appear
on the Formatting Palette. I have Word 2004 version 11.3.8. HELP! As
I jsut got put in charge of a newsletter as well!

Please and thanks for any advice!
Norma

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[Bates]

Hi Norma:

You MUST click a PICTURE first. Otherwise the option will not show up.

Then look in the Formatting Palette for "Wrapping". Or: right-click the
graphic and choose Format>Picture>Layout and choose anything BUT "Inline
with text".

Once the object is "floating" (i.e. Not behaving like a large character
within the text layer) then all the other options will enable.

A Word document is like a three-layer sandwich, with the Text Layer in the
centre. Pictures (actually, *any* floating object: tables, drawings...)
can be "In front of the text" or "Behind the text".

Once they are, that can have a large number of "layers", so: this in front
of that in front of that but all of them behind this...

Hope this helps







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Don't wait for your answer, click here:http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltdhttp://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

Yes - sorry I should have been more clear - you must click the picture
first for the options to become available.

Neil