Jan's Working with Words

Step-by-Step: Brochure Back

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What you will learn:

to add a text box over a text box to format text inside a text box  to rotate and format the text box

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Start with:  , brochure-tahiti2-Lastname-Firstname.docx

Text Box in a Text Box

You want to put the return address on the back of the brochure for mailing. The address will run from top to bottom on the page. You will put the address in a separate text box so you can make other adjustments for other uses in the future.

1. Save as  brochure-tahiti3-Lastname-Firstname.docx  in the  word project3  folder of your Class disk.
2. On the Insert tab click on the Text Box button and then on Draw Text Box.
   The pointer changes to the Precise Selection shape.
    
3. In Text Box 2, drag to create a new text box.
   Make a guess as to the size. You will resize it exactly later.
   
4. Drag your new text box around the page.
   At first this new text box looks like it is contained inside the old one. Actually it is just on top of it. Leave the box in the upper right of Text Box 2.
   
5. Save.
   [brochure-tahiti3-Lastname-Firstname.docx] 
    

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Format Text

1. If necessary, switch your Zoom to 100% so you can see the text you are about to type.
2. Type in the new text box the following lines:

    World Travel Inc. 

    Montevideo 6553 

    Buenos Aires 1123 Argentina 

    Phone 54(1) 821-6543
   

3.  Resize the text box as necessary to see all of the text.
4. Drag to select the first line of the address, World Travel Inc. (You won't be able to get to the selection area at the left of the text like you usually can.)
   

5. Format using the Mini-Toolbar as : 
       Font = Arial Black 
       Size = 7.5 
   (For numbers that aren't in the Size drop list on the Formatting bar, type the number into the Size box and press ENTER.)
   

6. In the Page Layout tab, set the Space After to 3 pt.
    
7. Select the remaining address lines.
   
8. Format using the Mini-Toolbar as:
      Font = Arial
      Size = 7
   
9. Save.
   [brochure-tahiti3-Lastname-Firstname.docx] 
    

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 Format the Text Box

1. Select the text box.
   Be sure that the border is solid, not dashed.  
2. On the Text Tools: Format or Drawing Tools: Format tab, click the Text Direction button .
             Word 2007: Direction changes, rotating 90^o.
   Word 2010, 2013, 2016: Click on Rotate all text 90^o.
   Direction changes.
   
3. Center the text.
    
4. If necessary, resize the address's text box by dragging one of its handles  until the whole address and phone number fits on 4 lines.
    
5. If necessary, drag the box to the top right corner of the address's text box.
   
6. With the text box selected, on the Text Box Tools: Format or Drawing Tools: Format tab, click the Shape Outline button.
   
7. Click on No Outline.

   This will look better in print than it does on screen.
   

8. Save.
   [brochure-tahiti3-Lastname-Firstname.docx]