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Subject:Re: another Word anomaly From:John Newman <johnn -at- OTG -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 16 Jun 1998 08:15:09 -0400
Nancy,
The problem is probably with your style definition for captions. Choose
Style... from your Format menu. Highlight Caption under Styles and click
on the Modify... button. Then click on the Format button and choose
paragraph. Change the indentation values in the Indents and Spacing tab
(I set mine to 0 so that I can see the caption even with the smallest of
text boxes).
Sorry for the detailed steps, I'm sure I could have just said, "Change
your indentation settings for captions," but hey, I'm a tech writer! ;-)
Besides it was a good warm up for the rest of the day.
HTH,
John Newman
Technical Writer
OTG Software
johnn -at- otg -dot- com http://www.otg.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McDonald, Nancy (The Registry) [mailto:McDonalN -at- LCI -dot- COM]
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 1998 4:45 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: another Word anomaly
>
>
> Hey, Gang,
> Has anyone had this latest experience with text boxes in
> Word??? (I usually
> do this when I'm noting the screen caps I've included), All
> of a sudden when
> I create a text box today, there's a margin that gets buried
> quite to the
> right of the box, such that the text disappears. When I drag
> the box open
> more to the right, I find some margin arrows (up top in the
> ruler) moved
> very far away. I actually dig them up and move them over to
> the left where
> they're SUPPOSED to be... what a pain! Has anyone found this
> problem and a
> workaround for it??
> (doncha just LOVE MS!!!! -at- #$!!!!!)
>
> TIA,
>
> Nancy McDonald
> Technical Writer, Consulting Services Manager
> The Renaissance Worldwide, Inc. (www.rens.com)
> Columbus, OH, US
