Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Positioning Paragraphs in Winword, (Was Re: WINWORD: Can I do this...) Message-ID: <3501@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 26 Oct 90 11:26:23 GMT References: <16409@rouge.usl.edu> <3463@gmdzi.gmd.de> <7448@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 41 oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer) writes: >I think what you are looking for ( and I may be misinterpreting this) is the >paragraph position feature. This is only available to defined styles. No, I am looking for how to avoid that all my text which is not nailed to a fixed position with the paragraph position feature, i.e. which has the standard positioning attributes, floats and covers all the space on the page which is between the margins and which isn't covered by the positioned elements, already. I already reported my failed attempt to work around this (by covering free space on the page where I don't want my floating text to float in with empty, positioned paragraps), in my message you are refering to. At least in the WfW-version I am using (i.e. 1.0 German) this does not work reliable, because of the undefined order of how WfW repaints overlapping, stacked paragraphs. Sometimes the empty placeholder paragraph overpaints the paragraph which has the text content, some times it doesn't. WfW 1.1 seems to be available in the US already. Does it have the same bug? > (short description of how to find the "Format Position" command omitted) >I think you should look at this feature and RTM about it. One thing you will The only thing my FM tells me is "as soon as you have positioned an element, all text which is not positioned will be placed around the positioned elements" (sorry for the ugly translation). This is not what I want. I want my text to be placed around the positioned elements, BUT I WANT IT TO START AT A CERTAIN POSITION, NOT AT THE FIRST FREE SPACE ON THE PAGE. I want to start the body text of my letter template at a fixed position, float around pictures, continue on the next page. I don't want the position of the letter text depend on the number of lines somebody types into the address field. I *do* want to place something on the right of the address field, but I don't want the letter text go there. I haven't found a way to do that. Do you? Wolfgang Strobl #include