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Lem
Here's what I want to do ... and although I can approximate the effect,
I can't find the proper combination of formatting tools to do it right.
Word 2003 (or 2002).
I want to make a tent card, like a place card, by folding my basic stock
in half and printing on the lower half. I'd like a border around the
bottom half at, say, a half inch from each edge. I'd like the text
within the border to be centered both vertically and horizontally.
I start by setting the margins. Assuming that I'm working with regular
letter-size paper, I would set left, right, and bottom to 0.5 and top to
6.
If I then type my text, click the "center" button (or set paragraph
alignment to centered), and set Vertical alignment to "center" in the
Page setup/layout the text is just what I want ... but there's no
border. I can get a border around the text by using carriage returns at
the ends of the lines(shift-enter) and then using paragraph border, but
this border is tight to the text and not to the margins.
If I try Page Border, that ignores the top margin and just puts a border
around the whole page.
I tried using a text box. I can either size the drawing canvas to
approximate the margins I want and make that visible, or I can leave the
drawing canvas with "no line" and make the border of the text box
visible. In either case, I can't figure out how to center the text box
within the drawing canvas, either horizontally or vertically. If I make
the text box itself lie on the 4 margins, I can get the text in the text
box centered horizontally but not vertically.
Any suggestions?
I can't find the proper combination of formatting tools to do it right.
Word 2003 (or 2002).
I want to make a tent card, like a place card, by folding my basic stock
in half and printing on the lower half. I'd like a border around the
bottom half at, say, a half inch from each edge. I'd like the text
within the border to be centered both vertically and horizontally.
I start by setting the margins. Assuming that I'm working with regular
letter-size paper, I would set left, right, and bottom to 0.5 and top to
6.
If I then type my text, click the "center" button (or set paragraph
alignment to centered), and set Vertical alignment to "center" in the
Page setup/layout the text is just what I want ... but there's no
border. I can get a border around the text by using carriage returns at
the ends of the lines(shift-enter) and then using paragraph border, but
this border is tight to the text and not to the margins.
If I try Page Border, that ignores the top margin and just puts a border
around the whole page.
I tried using a text box. I can either size the drawing canvas to
approximate the margins I want and make that visible, or I can leave the
drawing canvas with "no line" and make the border of the text box
visible. In either case, I can't figure out how to center the text box
within the drawing canvas, either horizontally or vertically. If I make
the text box itself lie on the 4 margins, I can get the text in the text
box centered horizontally but not vertically.
Any suggestions?