Placing Text Beside A Table

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:50:15 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Symptoms: There are three common ways to place text beside a table. Each technique has inherent advantages and limitations. Solutions: 1) One way to give the appearance of text outside of a table is to insert an extra table column on the side of the table where you want to place the text. To do this, position the insertion point in the last column. Select Insert from the Table menu and specify 1 column and the position as After. Then select OK. The text which is to appear outside the table will be typed into this column. Remove the lines from the extra column by selecting the column and choosing Lines/Fill from the Table menu. Change the Top, Right, Bottom, and Inside to None. This technique makes lining up text outside the table with text inside the table very easy, but the limitations include the inability to have the text flow around the table and beyond (such as text flows around graphic boxes) and the text typed in one row cannot exceed a page in length. All the cells in this "hidden" column can also be joined if needed. The cells in this column can also be joined by selecting the column with the mouse and choosing Join Cells from the Table menu. 2) Inserting the table into a graphic box is another way to allow text to be placed beside a table. Create the graphic box by selecting Text Box from the Graphics menu. Create the table inside the text box. Although this technique allows text to flow freely beside the table, it limits the size of the table to one page in length. This technique also requires the user to first doubleclick on the graphics box to edit the graphics box before editing the table. 3) Creating parallel or newspaper columns will also provide a method for positioning text outside of the table on either the left or the right. To create columns choose Columns from the Format menu and specify the desired number of columns: two to wrap text on one side of the table, 3 to wrap text on both sides of the table. Place the table in one column and the text the other(s). Minimizing the Spacing Between Columns when defining the columns will allow the text to wrap nearer the table border. Although keystrokes will vary, these techniques will work with the 5.x versions of WordPerfect with one exception: In option 3, the tables must be inserted in graphic boxes in order to place them in the columns.

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