how can I move a textbox with the text that surrounds it? 2

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Within the main text in a quark document (6.0 passport) I created a textbox for a small paragraph of text. Now I want this textbox to move with the main text, so, when I make changes to the main text above, it stays in the relative position where I put it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Foamcow]

Using the Item select tool: select and copy (ctrl+c) your object.

Now using the "hand" tool, position the cursor in your text box where you want the floating box to be and paste it in (ctrl+v).

You may find you need to adjust the type to make it look how you want it to look though.

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Thank you for your reaction, Foamcow, but when I follow your advice, the text after the position where I pasted my textbox disappears, and on the final page Quark shows the little red crossed square.
*puzzled*

 

[Foamcow]

Does the text reappear if you make the text box it is in larger?



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Unfortunately, no. I tried adding new pages at the end of the document (since the overflow-square appeared on the final page). When I link the new pages to the text chain, the overflow square moves to the new final page. There should be more than enough room for the text, though, since the textbox I'm trying to embed contains only four lines of text.

 

[blueark]

What size is the embedded text box? If either dimension is larger than the text box you are pasting it into, there won't be any room for it, hence the overflow.

 

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Hmm...we're almost getting there, now.
The small textbox I want to embed is exactly as wide as the target textbox. When I downsize the width a little before I cut and paste it, the main text doesn't overflow. BUT...when I then restore the initial width of the small textbox, the main text overflows again.

 

[Foamcow]

Thats precisely the problem then.
Check the format properties for the box you are pasting into.
Does it have a 1pt inset? That is a default setting.

If your floating box is as wide as the box its going into, but the box it's going into has an inset, then you wont get your floating box to fit.

Bear in mind also, that if you have frames set to be INSIDE a box item then they will take up some of the available space in the box. (I'm kind of hypothesising here).

Solution: make the floating box narrower or the text box wider.

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Indeed, when I downsize the width of the smaller textbox from 98 mm to 97.9 mm, the box embeds perfectly in the main textbox and flows with the text that surrounds it.

Thanks so much for guiding me through this.
Cheers.

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