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Transparent Text Boxes in Word

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Everyone knows you can create text boxes in MS Word.  They certainly come in handy at times. I have clients in law offices that use them to create line numbering in a sidebar and other clients who use them to box text, like I do when creating a tutorial that includes screen shots. There could be a time however, when you might like whatever is behind your text box to be visible.

There are a couple of ways to accomplish this:

  • You can make your text box partially transparent; or
  • Completely transparent.

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Create your text box as you normally would.
  2. Right-click on your text box to display a Context menu.
  3. Select Format Text Box from the context menu to display the dialog box.
  4. Be certain the Colors and Lines tab has been selected.

  1. Click the Semitransparent check box for a ghosted image of what is behind your text box to be visible.
  2. If you want your text box to be fully transparent, use the Color setting in the Fill area to select No Fill.
  3. Display the Layout tab.

  1. Be certain the Wrapping style is set to None or In Front of Text.
  2. Click on OK.

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Replace Long Blocks of Text in MS Word Using Search & Replace

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

MS Word has robut Search and Replace function and you should use it to its fullest capability. You all know I just LOVE to save time and keystrokes so why not put this function into use to do just that?

Sometimes you  need to replace a short block of text, with a longer, more detailed block of text throughout your document (i.e., a contract, Last Will & Testament, Thesis, Interrogatories, etc.)  Or there could be instances where you need to replace some text with a graphic (i.e., technical manual).

Follow the steps to learn how:

  1. Copy what you would like to use as a replacement to the Clipboard.
  2. Click Ctrl + H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
  3. In the Find What box, enter the text you want replaced.
  4. In the Replace With area, enter ^c, which will instruct Word to use the contents of the Clipboard as the replacement.
  5. Click on Find Next.
  6. Make replacements as you wish.

This comes in very handy if you have a particularly long replacement as the contents of the Replace With box is less than 255 characters.

 

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Position Line Numbers in your MS Word Documents

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

I am assuming you know how to add line numbers to your document because I have covered that in the Word Bytes Newsletter.

But did you know that you can modify the distance your line numbers are from the text in your document?

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Display the Page Layout tab of your Ribbon.
  2. In the Page Setup group, click the Line Numbers tool.
  3. Select Line Number Options to display the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog box.
  4. Click on the Line Numbers button to display the Line Numbers dialog box.
  5. Adjust the measurement in the From Text box to indicate the distance the line numbers should appear from your text.
  6. Click on OK to close the Line Numbers dialog box.

That’s all there is to it!

Click on OK to close the Page Setup dialog box.

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