Hi Stephen,
To remove the border, set the Line Color to No Line.
You can change the size of a text box by dragging the outlined white
squares in the appropriate direction.
Note:
--all textboxes are floating graphics
--when selected, inline graphics show a black line around them and
solid black squares, while floating graphics show a broad dotted line
and outlined squares. Grab the broad dotted line to drag floating
graphics around.
Here's another approach, if the above is not a fix--I'm pretty novice
at graphics but I tried this method and it worked.
1) Insert the picture as In Line With Text (acting like a paragraph),
text not wrapped around it (you may need to temporarily reformat some
of your pictures as inline for this method--doubleclick to bring up
the dialog and change the Layout setting).
2) Insert the Caption as the next paragraph.
3) Select both Caption and Picture. Go to Insert Text Box. In mine
(Word 2004), this put them both in the same Text Box, but it was too
small.
4) Grab one corner of the textbox and drag outward to upsize the
textbox to be the size you want.
5) Select the textbox and drag into the right position.
6) Select the textbox and double click to bring up the Format Text
Box dialog. To remove the border, set the Line Color to No Line.
Differences between what John and I said:
--this method gives you a single text box which should behave as a
single entity. I think John's method grouped two text boxes so that
they would stay together. I don't know whether one is better than the
other. I'm having problems putting a border around the picture with
this method, but I don't remember whether you wanted that anyhow.
hope something helps,
Daiya
Stephen Fox wrote:
John,
Thanks for your advice and instructions. I tried and tried your
method, following the directions as best I could, but I ran into a
number of problems, mostly having to do with the caption (text
box). The box just won't accept the captions I have for my pictures
(can't make them fit the box), and formatting is non-existent. I
got rid of the border around the text box, but when I tried to work
with the text itself, the border came back and I couldn't get rid of
it. One thing you didn't mention is how to remove the border once
you are in Colors and Lines (there are a umber of options available,
but not knowing what they pertain to precludes a confident choice
(at least on my part).
Until I know better how to manipulate the caption, I will have to
leave the document as is with pictures grouped together at the end
of chapters.
Steve
John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Hi Stephen:
OK, you really need to go back to basics and understand graphics to
do this.
There's two kinds of objects in a document: "Floating", and "Inline".
Inline is easy: that's ordinary text, sitting in the paragraph
along with
the characters of the text.
That's the way I do 99.9 per cent of my pictures: I don't wrap text
around
them at all. Then it becomes simple to add a separate paragraph,
put the
picture "in" it, use the paragraph style to position the picture,
add a
second paragraph below, and use the Caption style to position and
format the
caption.
However, you want text wrapped AROUND both a picture and its caption.
Somehow, you have to turn the combination into a single graphic
object. OK,
the easiest way to do that is:
1) Select the picture and move it where you want it (as we discussed
earlier)
2) Ensure the picture remains selected and Insert>Caption... The
caption
will arrive in a text box. Drag it into position where you want it.
3) Select the text box and use Format>Text Box>Colours and lines
to remove
the border from around it. (You don't have to, but it looks ugly if
you
don't)
4) Reveal the Drawing toolbar.
5) Click the Select Objects button on the drawing toolbar.
6) Select the drawing, hold down the Shift key and select the text
box.
7) On the Drawing toolbar, drop down the Draw menu and choose the
Group
option. This converts the Picture and the Text Box into a joined
single
object.
8) Right-click and use Format>Object to choose the wrapping style
you want
(e.g. "Tight").
There you go: Job's done.
Cheers
On 10/3/07 9:35 AM, in article
[email protected],
John,
OK, I got the picture inserted and text wrapped around it. FYI, the
option offered at the bottom of the Format Menu is just
"Picture." No
biggie.
Now, here's the next wrinkle: How do I add a caption to the
picture? I
tried the Caption option, which doesn't give you much flexibility,
but
it also doesn't allow text wrapping. Instead, it covers up the text.
Maybe there's another way to do this?
Steve
John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Hi Steve:
You don't have the picture "selected".
When the picture is selected, you will be offered a "Format
Picture" option
at the bottom of the menu. You may have to dwell a moment on the
menu for
the adaptive menu to expand further to show you the commands you
do not use
often.
When you choose that item, you'll get a "Layout" tab. Choose
"Around" or
"Square".
Cheers
On 9/3/07 7:44 PM, in article
[email protected], "Stephen
Can't figure out how to do this. Here's what Word X Help says:
1. Select the picture or drawing object.
2. On the Format menu, click the command for the type of object you
selected ‹ for example, AutoShape or Picture ‹ and then click
the Layout
tab.
3. Choose the wrapping style you want to apply.
Problem is, under the format menu I don't get either option
mentioned.
Then, of course, I can't go to the Layout tab.
Appreciate any help. What am I missing here?
Steve
