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was wondering if you could tell me where i can find out about how to use microsoft word to wrap text
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Hi Poz
Thank you for contacting us with your enquiry.
We understand that you want to know how to use Microsoft Word to wrap text.
Text wrap is a feature that enables you to surround a picture or diagram with text. The text wraps around the graphic. Text wrap can also be called text flow.
Text wrapping is straight forward to do once you have got the hang of it. We will give you the addresses for links to information in Word that tell you what to do, and also some website addresses on other sites that might be helpful too.
In Microsoft Word, click the question mark on the toolbar at the top of the screen. This will open the help window on the right hand side of your screen. Type 'how to wrap text' in the search box. Our programme has come up with thirty helps - we expect yours will do the same.
To wrap text the instructions are:
For around an object or a picture, if the picture or object is on a drawing canvas (an area on which you can draw multiple shapes. Because the shapes are contained within the drawing canvas they can be moved and resized as a unit) select the canvas, if the picture or object is not on a drawing canvas, select the picture or the object.
On the Format menu, click the command for the type of object you selected, eg AutoShape, Drawing Canvas or Picture, and then click the Layout tab. Then click the wrapping style you want to apply.
They add a note that for more wrapping styles and options for the direction of text flow and its distance from text, click Advanced on the Layout tab and then click the Text Wrapping tab.
If you want to wrap text around a table, then on the Table menu click Table Properties, and then click the Table tab. Under Text Wrapping click Around.
To set the horizontal and vertical position of the table change the distance from surrounding text and other options, click Positioning.
They add another tip advising that when you use the Draw Table tool to create a table, hold down CTRL to automatically apply text wrapping while you draw the table.
If you want to insert a text wrapping break (these are used to separate text around objects on Web pages, such as caption text from body text,) then click on your web page where you want to break a line of wrapped text. On the Insert menu click Break. Under Break types, click Text wrapping break. Text wrapping breaks are formatting marks that aren't normally visible in your document. If you want to view these breaks, turn on the formatting marks by clicking Show/Hide on the Standard toolbar, the text wrapping break character () indicates a text wrapping break.
We hope these instructions from Microsoft Word will help you. Perhaps you can print them off so you can refer to them easily.
As extra help we also include some information we have gathered from websites that explain in their own step by step guides. If you can't get the effect you want following one set of instructions, try using another set.
The following website gives a step by step guide to how you can achieve thiswww.ehow.com/how_10079_wrap-text-around.html <http://www.ehow.com/how_10079_wrap-text-around.html>
Below is the step by step guide:
Step 1
Select the picture you inserted into the document.
Step2
Go to the Format menu, and select Picture.
Step3
Select the Wrapping (or Layout) tab in the Format Picture window.
Step4
Select one of the five Wrapping Style choices.
Step5
Select one of the four "Wrap to" (or alignment) choices if you want, or leave this unselected.
Step6
Select the Distance from Text in inches to set the amount of space between the text and the graphic (top, bottom, left, right). (You may need to click the advanced button to set this option.)
Step7
Click OK to set these parameters.
Another useful website is below as well. This shows how to position text around pictures, shapes and tables.
office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100997401033.aspx-
It might be a good idea perhaps to go to your local library and borrow a computer book such as ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) or 'Computers for Dummies' which isn't meant to be insulting but goes through, step by step, various things many of us forget how to do. These books and many more like them can also be bought in places like WH Smiths and all other good retail book stores. Or you could find them in your local library.
If you attend school or college they should have these kinds of books in their library as well.
We hope we have answered your enquiry, please come back if you need any further assistance.
Best Wishes
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