Positioning Boxes in WordPerfect
By Richard C. Belthoff Jr.
Richard C. Belthoff Jr. is vice president and assistant general counsel at Wachovia Corp.
He can be reached via e-mail at richard.belthoff@wachovia.com.
In the past three print issues of Law Office Computing, I discussed some of the available options that appear on the right click image editing menu when you right click on an image box in a Corel WordPerfect document. The following tip continues that discussion.
To display the image editing menu, right click on an image in one of your documents. Then select “Position” to display the “Box Position” dialog. The top option is “Attach box to.” You can attach your box to a “Page,” a “Paragraph” or a “Character” in your document. If you select “Page,” the box will move with your page as you edit your document. More attaching options are displayed in the lower portion of the dialog box.
For example, you can offset the “Horizontal” position of your box from the “Right Margin,” the “Left Margin,” the “Left Edge of the Page” and so forth. You also can offset the “Vertical” position of your box from the “Top Margin,” the “Bottom Margin,” the “Top of Page” and so forth. If you have more than one column on your page, you can choose how many columns you want the image to span across. The last option on the dialog is “Box stays on page.” Checking this option will keep a box on the page as you add text (i.e., the box will not move when the text jumps to another page as it is added).
If you attach a box to a “Paragraph,” similar options appear, although you no longer can span the image across columns. In addition, you only can offset the “Vertical” position of the image from the top of the paragraph. The last option is “Box not limited by table cell.” If checked, this option allows the box to be bigger than its containing table cell.
If you attach your box to a “Character” in your document, the box will move with words in a line. There are several options here for box location, such as “Top,” “Centered,” “Centered on baseline” and more. As you select options, the preview window shows their effect on the box. The last option is “Box changes text line height.” If you want all text lines within your paragraph to retain the line height you set, don’t select this option.
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The “Box Position” dialog allows you to
adjust the position of an image on the page.
