
You can try adjusting the curve but you might find that Word doesn’t have enough fine control to get the exact effect you’d like. Word will now wrap text around the table while you type it. Click the ‘OK’ button to apply the changes you just made. In order to wrap text around the table, simply click the box labelled ‘Around’ in the ‘Text wrapping’ section. For the O.P. Towards the bottom of the dialogue box, look for the section labelled ‘Text wrapping’. As you can see I am running Leopard 10.5.4.

‘No Fill’ transparency will let you place the text box over the object without hiding the object underneath.Īs you can see, the text curve doesn’t exactly match the smiley face curve. It will not go around a few words in a paragraph, just the whole paragraph. If you’ll be editing the document regularly, rename the objects to clearer names then just ‘Text Box …’ etc.įor a circular object, make a curved text box with a ‘No Fill’ or transparent background. Tip: group the four text boxes together in the selection pane to make management easier. Smart users will make just two boxes (top and left), position and format them then copy those two for the matching bottom and right boxes. Then drag each box to its exact position. Use the Insert | Text Box | Draw Text Box option to roughly place the four boxes around the object.

Here’s a chart with four text boxes around it. Putting text around a box requires four separate text boxes, positioned and grouped around the object.
PUT A BOX AROUND TEXT IN WORD FOR MAC HOW TO
Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.Ĭontinuing from our look at putting Word text vertically, at an angle or curved here’s how to put text around an object image, chart, shape or other Word object.
