Microsoft KB Archive/44103

Word: Too Much White Space at Top, Bottom of Graphic

PSS ID Number: Q44103 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

5.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

Microsoft Word version 5.0 puts too much white space at the top and bottom of a box graphic.

This problem occurs because the Format Border Box command is not a graphic-boxing command; rather, it is a paragraph-boxing command. The Format Border Box command automatically puts approximately 0.167 inch of white space around paragraph. For text paragraphs, this looks acceptable, as you would not want the box to be touching the text letters. For a graphic, however, this white space is much more noticeable. To compensate for this white space, Word would require a boxing command specifically for graphic images so that the box would directly contour to the graphic.

= MORE INFORMATION =

One workaround to eliminate the extra white space is to set the Format Position Frame width to zero. The graphic effectively takes up zero horizontal and vertical space. To place text after the graphic, add one or more blank lines before the text.

Other workarounds include either reducing the graphics width by approximately 0.25 inch via the Library Link Graphics command, or to increase the paragraph frame width by approximately 0.25 inch via the Format Position command. Each of these workarounds will cause the white space to occur around the entire graphic, not just the top and bottom.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word version 5.0. Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

KBCategory: kbother kbgraphic KBSubcategory: Additional reference words: 5.00 ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1994.