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Apple iWork 08 Tutorials
Create Dynamic Documents / Wrapping Text
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Alright. In this module we'll deal very briefly with something that effects how a picture works with the text in your document and that is more commonly known as word wrap. So I'll give you an example of word wrap here. I'm going to drag this image that's in the resume and I'm going to drag it over into the text and you'll notice that this image shoves this text aside. Now, if I just keep going, eventually that text is going to wrap all the way around like this. The blue lines you're seeing, by the way are alignment guides, which I'll talk about in a later module. So there we go. Now, the reason why this is all going on is because if I look at the inspector, there is a button in the inspector called the wrap inspector. So open up the wrap inspector and you can see that the object causes wrap. Now you define how that object will cause wrap. Warp text just to the left of the object, just to the right of the object, all the way around the object, above and below. We have two options here. Wrap text to the left or right, whichever has more space or again, above and below. So if I select this, notice that it changes completely how that object behaves in the rest of the text around it. You can also define how that text fits and so if I choose this, notice that the text is going to get a little more snug than this option here. Now, again, it's kind of a subtle change with an object like this, but as you might guess, objects that have more shape or contour, like a triangle, the change will be more dramatic. So in fact, let me try something like this. I'm going to rotate the object like that and now let's see if we click this, if that will make a difference. And indeed it does. By the way, how did I do that? You see this in the Keynote stuff, but you hold down the command key and grab one of the handles here and you can rotate your object and that same thing with a picture or a shape that you dealt with and then you can narrow down the extra space around so you can tighten up that text or give that text a little more breathing room if you'd like. So those are your object placement options there and the same thing goes when you're adding shapes. So if I add a star to things here and I want to move it around again, the object is either going to be floating, it's going to cause wrap, or it's not going to cause wrap. So I'm going to select it once again. You can drag and different shapes will have different options here. This one will have, you can do a five-point star, a six-point star, a seven-point star and so on, but again, give it a select, maybe the object causes wrap, maybe it doesn't. If it doesn't cause wrap, notice it's right in front of the text. So if that's not chosen, maybe that's what you want, but a lot of times in a Pages document anyway, you don't want your object to be blocking out the text underneath. So that's usually going to be enabled and then you can determine again what kind of wrap occurs and whether the text or whether the object, I should say, is inline or floating. Inline means it's going to be in line. It's going to be put in an insertion point in the document somewhere. I think for most of your images and shapes, this is going to be the choice, to have a floating image.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iWork 08 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33851 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-50-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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