Microsoft KB Archive/41079

Text Won’t Wrap Around Short Positioned Paragraph

PSS ID Number: Q41079 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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 == Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, version 4.0 == 

If you specify a Horizontal or Vertical setting in the Position dialog box for a text paragraph, but leave the Paragraph Width at “Auto”, the width of the positioned paragraph is determined by the column width (or section width, if you have a one-column document), and other text will not wrap to the left and/or right of it.

Setting the indents for the paragraph has no effect on how the surrounding text wraps.

Therefore, if the paragraph is very short horizontally and you want other text to wrap around it, type an appropriate measurement (smaller than the column width) in the Paragraph Width box in the Position dialog box.

For example, if you have a single-word paragraph and you want the text beneath it to wrap on either side of it, do the following:


 * 1) Specify a horizontal setting of “center relative to column”.
 * 2) Specify a vertical setting of “in line”.
 * 3) Type a paragraph width of “1 inch”.

If the only item in the positioned paragraph is a graphic, Word will automatically assume the graphic width as the “Auto” paragraph width for the Position formatting.

For more information about the Position command in Word version 4.00, see page 241 of the “Reference to Microsoft Word” version 4.0 manual.

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