Microsoft KB Archive/122041

Creating Custom Text Wrap Envelopes in Publisher

= Creating Custom Text Wrap Envelopes in Publisher =

Q122041
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- Microsoft Publisher versions 2.0 and 2.0a ---

SUMMARY

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Publisher includes the ability to wrap text around pictures or graphics. Page 265 of the "Microsoft Publisher User's Guide" discusses usage of either regular wrap or an irregular wrap. In some cases, irregular wrap may actually cut into a graphic due to an overly complex wrap envelope. To work around this, layer an empty, unbordered picture frame on top of the graphic, and use it to adjust the text wrap. This will work if the text frame can be made transparent, and the graphic in question can be layered behind it.

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Use one of these methods to generate a simple wrap envelope.

NOTE: The envelope can be seen by choosing Show Boundaries And Guides from the Tools menu.

1. Click in the frame that contains your text, then press CTRL+T (to  make the text frame transparent).

2. Select the graphic that the text is wrapping around.

3. From the Layout menu, choose Send To Back.

4. Click the Picture tool on Publisher's tool palette.

5. Draw a picture frame over the graphic.

6. Adjust the size of the picture frame until the text is no longer touching the graphic.

If a square wrap is too simple, extra handles may be added by holding down the CTRL key and clicking on the envelope where extra handles are needed. Drag the new handle to adjust the envelope. Object boundaries and guides must be showing to do this easily.

If a circular wrap envelope is needed:

1. Use steps 1-3 above.

2. Click the WordArt tool and drag a WordArt frame that is about the same size as the graphic. Type the character "O" (without the  quotation).

3. Close WordArt.

4. Create an irregular wrap around the WordArt Object. This should yield a round wrap envelope.

5. Double-click the WordArt object to edit it, and from the Format menu, choose Shading. Change the shading to Clear and click OK.

6. Close WordArt.

This should create a circular wrap envelope that can be resized as needed. Extra handles may be added to the envelope as noted above.

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