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On Apr 21, 4:17 pm, Helmut Weber <nbhymsjxd...@mailinator.com> wrote:

Helmut Weber · Guest

Hi Larry,

I see. How about omitting anchor at all?

Cursor in the textbox:

Sub Test9A()
Dim x As Long
Dim y As Long
Dim w As Long
w = Selection.ShapeRange(1).Width - 50
T = Selection.ShapeRange(1).Top + 100
l = Selection.ShapeRange(1).Left + 100
h = Selection.ShapeRange(1).Height - 50

ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextbox _
msoTextOrientationHorizontal, l, T, w, h

End Sub

I don't know about a textbox in a textbox.
To me ist is not within the first textbox,
but positioned so that is appears to be within.
It is on another layer, so to speak.
And it is anchored to the paragraph the textbox
it was created from is anchored.

What could that be good for?

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Win XP, Office 2003
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On Apr 22, 5:20 pm, Helmut Weber <nbhymsjxd...@mailinator.com> wrote:

Stefan Blom · Guest

FWIW, the LockAspectRatio property is defined for Shape and InlineShape
objects. For example:

Selection.InlineShapes(1).LockAspectRatio = msoFalse

turns off the option for the first InlineShape object in the selection.
(The property can be used analogously with Shape objects.)

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Shauna Kelly · Guest

Hi Andreas

Is the following what is happening?

Case 1: Footnote text is "_Merchant of Venice_ (1600)"
In this case, when you apply the paragraph style, "Merchant of Venice" loses
its italics.

Case 2: Footnote text is "The main character in Shakespeare's _Merchant of
Venice_ is Shylock, a money-lender who wants his pound of flesh."
In this case, when you apply the paragraph style, "Merchant of Venice"
retains its italics.

If this is the case, then what is happening is Word's expected behaviour. It
is not a bug.

All paragraph styles contain both paragraph properties (eg space before)
*and* character properties (eg font and font size). A paragraph always has a
paragraph style applied to it and may, in addition, have direct formatting
applied. Direct formatting over-rides the formatting derived from the style.
So in both cases above, "Merchant of Venice" has direct italics formatting
applied.

When Word applies a paragraph style, it looks to see what direct formatting
has been applied. If direct formatting has been applied to more than 50% of
the text in the paragraph, then the paragraph style is applied, and the
direct formatting is lost. If direct formatting has been applied to less
than 50% of the text in the paragraph, then the paragraph style is applied,
and the direct formatting is retained.

This is actually how you expect Word to work. Imagine a paragraph in Normal
style where all the text in the paragraph has been formatted with 20pt blue
underline. Now, you apply, say, Body Text style to the paragraph. You would
expect to lose the blue 20pt underline. On the other hand, if you have a
paragraph like the second footnote above, and you apply a new paragraph
style, you would expect to retain the italics.

There is no way around this in your case, and it's one very good reason to
use Word's built-in styles. In this case, I recommend that you modify the
built-in Footnote Text style to suit your needs and let Word work in its
normal way.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

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Stephen English · Guest

Hi Helmut
THank you for taking the time to give me such a detailed response.
I am writing a database for Rotary when I have time to produce a District
Directory.
Regards
Stephen
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"Helmut Weber" wrote:

Jean-Guy Marcil · Guest

Simon K was telling us:
Simon K nous racontait que :

WP · Guest

Bonjour Jean Guy!
Excellent info on that site
I did what the page said and it looks like it will work great.
I created the form in the vba editor and added the code right i think!
When I open the .dot the form does come up
When i add info to the 1st of the text boxes i get this error

Compile error: method or data not found
I click ok and the debugger comes up with this sub highlighted
Range_ is highlighted in blue ands the private sub in yellow
I tried changing several things and still get the error
HELP!!!!
Thanks

Private Sub TextBox1_Change()
With ActiveDocument
.Bookmarks(UserName).Range_
.InsertBefore TextBox1
End Sub

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:

Helmut Weber · Guest

Hi Andreas,

Shauna told you. But if there is a lot of
direct formatting and for whatever reason
you don't have the time to set it all up the proper
way, then one might think of using highlighting
to mark pieces of text in italic before you apply your
footnote style, and apply the direct formatting
afterwards again to the highlighted spots,
and remove the highlight.

Which won't work if there are pieces of text
e.g. formatted as italic plus underlined.

One might even think of setting up an array
of ranges for a footnote.
Store the italic ranges there.
Do your formatting, restore the ranges to italic.

Or a multidimensional array,
holding ranges and the formatting.

But then you would be close to re-inventing
the structure of Word-documents.

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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Win XP, Office 2003
"red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"

theLuggage · Guest

I've found the "Dummies" books to be real good intros. They'll cover the
basics pretty well. But maybe you're beyond the basics.

I've also bought the Excel and Word "Developer's Handbooks" published by
Sybex. They've been real helpful.

Good luck and stick with it (as Helmut said).

"steve321" wrote:

Jean-Guy Marcil · Guest

WP was telling us:
WP nous racontait que :

old man · Guest

Hi Lynda,

Its good to take classes but the best way to learn is by doing -which is
what you are engaged in. Try reading a good VBA book for 1/2 hour a day.
Don't memorize just try to understand the concepts.

take care,
old man

"Lynda" wrote:

andreas · Guest

On 23 Apr., 10:58, "Shauna Kelly"
<ShaunaKe...@SendNoSpamToShaunaKelly.com> wrote: