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Text boxes can be useful for drawing attention to specific text. They can also be helpful when you need to move text around in your document. Word allows you to format text boxes and the text within them with a variety of styles and effects. The Microsoft Word settings align text vertically to the top of the document by default, but the settings can be changed to center the text vertically, align it to the bottom of the page, or justify it vertically on the page.
You can easily add all sorts of objects to a Word document in Office 2011 for Mac. Word 2011 gives you shortcuts to position an object in your document. Here’s how to get at them:
- Select an object.
- On the Ribbon’s Format tab, go to the Arrange group and click the Position button.
- Choose a position from the gallery.
When you put an object into a Word document and then add text or other content earlier in the document, your object moves down along with the text in the document. A word-processing document flows that way so that your objects stay in the same relative position to the text as you add or delete text and objects. You can change this behavior, though.
You can make an object stay in an exact position in the document so that text flows around the object, and it doesn’t move with the text — this is known as anchoring. Think of this as dropping a boat anchor — water flows by, but the boat stays in the same position relative to the shore. In Word, if you anchor an object to a margin, the object stays in the same relative position. Nonanchored objects and text flow around the object. This anchoring capability is a basis of publishing programs, so it’s natural to use it in Word’s Publishing Layout and Print Layout views. Follow these steps to anchor an object in Word:
Text Box Templates
- Select an object.
- On the Ribbon’s Format tab, go to the Arrange group and choose Position→More Layout Options.
- Click the Position tab.
- (Optional) Set the position of an object precisely using controls in this dialog.
- Under Options, select the Lock Anchor check box.
- Click OK to close the Advanced Layout dialog and then click OK to close the Advanced Layout dialog.
Text now flows according to the settings you made, and the object is anchored to the position you selected. Although you can still drag the object to new positions on the page, it won’t move when you add or delete text.
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I just purchased MS Office 2013. Previously I used 2010. I encountered the same problem you described, which I never experienced with 2010...No matter how much I clicked on the text boxes in my document, I couldn't edit the text, or I'd only be able to do so after a really long period of clicking! Not efficient. Anyway, I basically went into the layout box and changed my text wrapping and all of a sudden I had access to all the text boxes in the document. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying attention to what I changed it from, or to, as I was just clicking away and hoping for the best. I went back into layout to see if I could figure it out. A couple times when I chose the text wrapping options 'tight' or 'square' it had the same effect of not allowing me to edit the text. Sorry I can't fully explain but maybe if you change whatever text wrapping option you currently have, it'll work. I also clicked on the options 'move with text' and 'fix position on page' so you could try those also. All the best to everyone having this problem!