What's the use of including a picture in a textbox ?

[Timothy Madden]

Hello

I recently received a document for preparation (had to do all sorts of
changeings) and I was surprised to see that all tables and pictures were
included in a textbox or a frame so I had a hard time working on the
document. I know you can use frames to wrap text around a float but I
don't think this is the reason; all floats were placed like this.

So what other reasons could there be to place floats within frames or
boxes ?
Why does Word 2002 provides me with a canvas to draw when I insert a
text box or an autoshape ?

Thank you
Timothy Madden

 

[Andre Da Costa]

You can turn it off by going to "Tools", "Options" and go to the "General"
Tab and uncheck "Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting
Autoshapes".

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Timothy,

I recently received a document for preparation (had to do all sorts of
changeings) and I was surprised to see that all tables and pictures were
included in a textbox or a frame so I had a hard time working on the
document. I know you can use frames to wrap text around a float but I
don't think this is the reason; all floats were placed like this.

So what other reasons could there be to place floats within frames or
boxes ?

Scanning (OCR) software will tend to do this. It's also possible that the
person who created the document just thought this is how it has to be done
(you'd be amazed at some of the "instruction documentation" out there that
still uses Word 6/95 graphics handling).

The only possible advantage I'm aware of would be for tables: so that they
can't break across to a new page.

Why does Word 2002 provides me with a canvas to draw when I insert a
text box or an autoshape ?

Why? Probably because MS thought it's "cool" (and to make sure people know
the new feature is there). Andre mentioned where you can turn it off.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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