Word?

[Big Dave]

Can you lock a series of text boxes in place in MS word?

First one of you laughs at me for accepting a word job is in trouble.

[enigma51]

Can you lock a series of text boxes in place in MS word?

First one of you laughs at me for accepting a word job is in trouble.

Never laughed so much in my life

[Big Dave]

Never laughed so much in my life

Grrrr, It's a 'love' job.

[Krayy]

After you have created the text box, right click and choose "Format text box". Go to Layout tab, click "advanced", then change the horizontal and vertical positions to be relative to the page, not the paragraph. That will lock the text box to the page and you can add/remove text around it without moving it.

[enigma51]

Grrrr, It's a 'love' job.

Just cause you got issued with lube doesn't mean you can it a love job

[Big Dave]

After you have created the text box, right click and choose "Format text box". Go to Layout tab, click "advanced", then change the horizontal and vertical positions to be relative to the page, not the paragraph. That will lock the text box to the page and you can add/remove text around it without moving it.

Only perfick.

[Hitcher]

The text box is one of the more vile and largely pointless features of MS Word.

If you need to use a text box, you should be using another application. Simple.

And the tears are rolling down my legs, Dave.

[Big Dave]

Just cause you got issued with lube doesn't mean you can it a love job


Business is a series of compromises.

[Big Dave]

The text box is one of the more vile and largely pointless features of MS Word.

If you need to use a text box, you should be using another application. Simple.



Entrench that in the corporate psyche pahleeeese and make Publisher self erasing.

[vifferman]

Word sucks....








....the life outta those what use it.

Anyone got a really, REALLY big hammer I can use on Front Bum... errr... Front Page?

I've just wasted an afternoon of my life wrestling with it.
Why are Micro$oft applications so fucking annoying to use? It used to be that you told an application what you wanted it to do, and it did it. Now you try to make it do something and it does something entirely different. "No, you only think you want o do that. Let's do this instead."

Where's me big red "Fuckit!!" stamp?

[Big Dave]

Word sucks.......the life outta those what use it


Only those schmucks that try to do graphics with it.
Good enough at wot it's meant for.

[Gremlin]

Why are Micro$oft applications so fucking annoying to use? It used to be that you told an application what you wanted it to do, and it did it. Now you try to make it do something and it does something entirely different. "No, you only think you want o do that. Let's do this instead."

Funnily enough, for a seemingly minor revision, Office 2003 is muuuuuch better than Office XP. Semi-intelligent, and you can correct its thoughts.

Low point for me was inserting a specific bullet point at a specific indent... Office XP and 30 minutes later, I had it. :blank:

Thanks for a fantastic laugh Dave, did you enjoy the dark side?

[Tank]

I miss the talking paperclip.

He was really helpful - and I didn't mind the 164mb of RAM he took up sitting there on the off chance I actually wanted to write a letter and was doing it wrong.

[Gremlin]

I miss the talking paperclip.

He was really helpful - and I didn't mind the 164mb of RAM he took up sitting there on the off chance I actually wanted to write a letter and was doing it wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aXzMuYN7U

[Big Dave]

Thanks for a fantastic laugh Dave, did you enjoy the dark side?

I worked for a MS training school in the early 90's. Teaching powerpoint (and photoshop).

Like Old school week. :-)

[FlangMasterJ]

Word and Publisher, the bane of digital print.

[Big Dave]

I created the background that I want to lock text boxes over in Adobe Illustrator.

Frustrator, me lovelies, is a piece of digital devil spawn as vile as any from Uncle Bill

[Gremlin]

I created the background that I want to lock text boxes over in Adobe Illustrator.

Frustrator, me lovelies, is a piece of digital devil spawn as vile as any from Uncle Bill
pah, you're in the wrong job... I know them enough to support people with random queries, but about the most I use it is sticking logos on, indenting text, hard stuff aye?

Funniest was one client with highly modified excel sheets, massive strings of formulae, wanted to know why it wasn't working :blank: I did actually find the problem as well!!

[rogson]

I trust you affected the effect you wanted?

[Big Dave]

I trust you affected the effect you wanted?

Precisely.