Help users increase productivity by automatically signing up for TechRepublic’s free Microsoft Office Suite newsletter, featuring Word, Excel, and Access tips, delivered each Wednesday. Word 2007 wraps the paragraph around the text of the text box, as shown in Figure E.Ĭheck out the Microsoft Word archive and catch up on other Word tips. Click the Line And Page Breaks tab, select All in the Tight Wrap box ( Figure D), and click OK.Click the Indents And Spacing tab and select Centered in the Alignment box.Click the dialog launcher in the Paragraph group of the Home tab.Figure Cįollow these steps to use the new text wrap feature: The paragraph text is now wrapped around the text box boundaries, as shown in Figure C.

Click the Text Box tab, click Center under Vertical Alignment ( Figure B), and click OK.

Click the Layout tab and click Tight under Text Wrapping Style.

Click the Line Color arrow and select No Color.

On the Colors And Lines tab, click the Fill color arrow and select No Color.

On the Format tab in the Text Box Styles group, click the dialog launcher box.

For example, say you’ve created the text box shown in Figure A. Can you help The Guru says: Januat 3:18 pm. Now in Word 2010, the bookmark name is not saved. Word 2007’s new text wrapping feature lets you wrap a paragraph around the text in a text box, not just around the boundaries. In Word 2007 is could just type a name into the Bookmark field of the Text Form Field Options and that would work. This will remove the field codes, replacing them with the text they contained. We have double clicked in the field to obtain the Properties and entered the number of characters in the maximum length box but it still allows more characters to be entered.

Right-click, then click Toggle Field Codes. We are trying to limit the of characters in the text form fields. Here's a look at how to wrap around text rather than around the text box boundaries. Press CTRL+A on your keyboard to select all the text within the document. Word 2007 expands your wrapping options in a text box.

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