Wrapping Text
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 four print issues of Law Office Computing, I discussed some of the options available on the right click image editing menu that appear when you right click an image in a Corel WordPerfect document. This e-tip finishes that discussion.
To display the image editing menu, right click on an image in your document. Then, select “Wrap” to display the “Wrap Text” dialog (see Figure 1). The “Wrap Text” dialog contains multiple options for wrapping text around images.
There are five wrapping options. “Square” places an imaginary square around your image and keeps text outside the square. “Contour” allows text to almost hug an irregularly shaped image. Features such as this used to be reserved for sophisticated graphics programs until WordPerfect added it to its repertoire. The “Neither side” option keeps text away from the sides of your image. “Behind text” allows the image to float behind your text like a watermark. The “In front of text” option allows your image to float over your text, in essence making the text similar to a watermark.
If you select “Square” or “Contour” as your wrapping type, the four “Wrap text around” options are activated. Generally, you should use the “Both sides” option, especially if your graphic is in the middle of a paragraph or page. This allows text to flow around the entire image. The “Largest side” option prevents text from wrapping along the largest side of your image. You might want to use this option if the image is located close to the left or right edge of the page so there only is white space between the image and the edge of the page. The “Left side” and “Right side” options allow text to flow only along the selected side of your image.
If you don’t use columns in your document, you should avoid placing a graphic in the middle of a page. Doing this without columns breaks up the text by making it flow around the image (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. Placing an image in the middle of text
can sometimes cause awkward text breaks.
The reader must then jump over the image to continue reading. If an image appears in the middle of a page, it’s usually placed between two columns to avoid awkward text breaks. With this placement, text in each column will flow down each side of the image.
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Figure 1. The “Wrap Text” dialog allows
you to wrap text around an image.
