Theresa Estrada, program manager in the word team, writes today about the basics of working with graphic objects-forms, text boxes, pictures, and more. This is the first in a series of posts about graphics objects.
Numbers, also known as widgets, a ton of pizazz to a document can add, but it not always behavior the way as you would expect maybe that can be incredibly frustrating. With a little behind the scenes information can you your numbers in their place.
What I mean when I say "Figure"? A character is any type of graphic object, you can insert in a document, with the exception of tables. These include shapes, text boxes, images, clip art, charts, SmartArt and WordArt.
With regard to the numbers in your document behavior are there two basic types:
A figure behavior, you can use the menu wrap text the section order on the format tab that displays when you select the figure:
Numbers, the the square, tight, through, up and down, behind textor before text use wrapping style are all as floating. As know which option you use?
The default behavior for images, clip art, charts and SmartArt is in line with text or inline. If a figure is inline, it is treated just like any other character in the document. For example, if you insert a picture as the dog pretty down, has it actually are in a row. The line height increases to take the picture, and the image moves with the text surrounding it. The figure is not formatting it is applied to the paragraph in that respect as such as alignment of the paragraph in the middle of the page.
Inline behavior familiar figures and is predictable, but the downside is that they are bound to the lines of text. This means that you can this position without resorting to fancy layout tricks in many places on the page. These figures look not usually associated with the document, integrated, because wraps the text around them not. Finally, there is no way to force an inline figure in a particular place to stay.
Enter the floating figure, which is the default behavior for shapes and text boxes. The big difference between inline figures and floating numbers is that floating numbers on a separate level drawing will be inserted. Nothing in the drawing layer "floats" regardless of text, which means, that you can position a floating figure almost everywhere. These figures can text wrapping around them or be positioned before or behind text. Text wrapping can integrate a figure with the rest of your content as you can see from the dog picture in this example:
Floating numbers are incredibly flexible in how they can be positioned, and they solve most problems associated with line numbers. However, sometimes, this flexibility can lead to surprising results.
I will be the next couple of blog posts demystifying the options for the floating figures, including spend:
How to flow around your numbers in various way text. Why your numbers sometimes jump to new locations (and how to avoid!). Fast ways to get numbers with each other (and stay) align.--Theresa Estrada is in the word team spends most her days (and some nights) studying how users with numbers in their document work program manager.
No comments:
Post a Comment