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Edit exactly how text wraps “through” your shape or picture.
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Quick reference
Shapes - Edit Wrap Points
Adjust text wrapping points around shapes and pictures.
When to use
When you want text to show through specific areas of a shape or picture, rather than just wrapping around the outer perimeter.
Instructions
To wrap the text into the background of the flower, but not into the blossoms and buds. Begin by first dragging the picture over the top of the textbox.
- The text box must be Sent Backward in order to force text to wrap around the shape or picture.
- The Wrap Text on the shape or picture should be set to Tight and wrap points must be edited. Choose Edit Wrap Points.
- The Picture must be set to Transparency.
- Right-click the picture, Format Picture, set Transparency to 50%.
- A review and comparison of how Send Backward affects text wrapping.
Before:
Text box placed over a shape.
Shape: no wrap applied.
After:
Text box Send Backward.
Shape: wrap text: Square.
- 00:04 All right, in this lesson we're going to place the picture of the flowers into
- 00:08 the center of the text on the screen.
- 00:10 And then we're going to wrap and edit our wrap points, so
- 00:13 that our text can get as close to the flowers and the buds as possible.
- 00:19 Now on the left hand side, I do have a text box with all the instructions, and
- 00:22 then a duplicate of that text inside the page so
- 00:25 that that text will wrap around on the picture.
- 00:27 But since we're doing a lot right now, I need as much screen room as possible.
- 00:30 So I'm going to collapse my ribbons up on top with just a double click on the Home
- 00:34 ribbon to collapse that.
- 00:35 That allows me to zoom in a little closer, so we can actually see what's happening,
- 00:39 and I'll move this over.
- 00:40 All right, let's go ahead and do this.
- 00:42 I'm going to click and drag this picture from the scratch area and
- 00:44 drop it right in the middle of the text.
- 00:47 When I do that, pictures will always pop out and
- 00:50 push the text around it as a default.
- 00:53 So I don't have to go in and tell a text send back, it already is in the back.
- 00:57 Now, If your text is over the top of the picture, you've got to click the edge of
- 01:00 it, and make sure to tell text box to go back, Send Backward, okay?
- 01:07 So that's done, but it's not exactly what I wanted.
- 01:10 I would actually like to have the text blend into some of the picture,
- 01:14 kind of wrap itself, just leave the flowers and the buds.
- 01:17 In order to that, I'm going to click on the picture itself,
- 01:21 that gives me my picture tools formatting toolbar, I have my Wrap Text button,
- 01:26 and read the entire list.
- 01:27 So I have None, Square, Tight.
- 01:29 This is one of the keys right here and it's in the instructions.
- 01:32 You've got to set the Wrap Text to be Tight, click all right.
- 01:36 Now you didn't see anything change but when we edit our Wrap Points,
- 01:40 that's when it matters.
- 01:41 I could have done that afterwards, it's okay, we did it now.
- 01:44 Now let's go ahead and hit the Edit Wrap Points, this is so cool, so
- 01:47 I'm going to click Edit Wrap Points, and
- 01:49 pay attention to the handles on the picture they are about to change.
- 01:52 Click, there we go.
- 01:54 We have new Wrap Points.
- 01:55 I'm going to zoom in just a little bit so you can actually see this better.
- 01:59 All right, notice what were little white circles are now little black squares.
- 02:03 Notice my mouse when I float it over the top it's an entirely new mouse symbol.
- 02:07 I'm going to click and drag and move this in.
- 02:10 Well, now I just slice through the edge of that flower petal.
- 02:13 Well, Ctrl+click, gives me a new wrap point and I can click and drag and
- 02:18 move that out.
- 02:19 So I'm going to grab this wrap point and I'm going to move it over here,
- 02:22 and I'm going to put a wrap point right here.
- 02:24 Ctrl+click gives me a new wrap point, move it out.
- 02:27 You see what's happening?
- 02:29 I have total control over how I wrap all the text around this flower, Ctrl+click.
- 02:35 You can even see the text in the background moving around,
- 02:37 it's kind of cool.
- 02:39 Well, even though you see the text moving around, if I send this flower behind that
- 02:43 text, the text is going to override the whole thing.
- 02:45 So one last step I'm going to do,
- 02:47 I would love to crop off the unused portions of that picture, but I can't.
- 02:52 Keep in mind we're just using Microsoft Publisher, this isn't a full-blown
- 02:55 Photoshop program, this is Microsoft Publisher, we'll take what we can get.
- 03:00 What I'm going to do is I'm going to make this picture semi transparent so
- 03:04 I can sort of read the text behind it.
- 03:06 So at this point I'm pretty much done with my wrap points.
- 03:10 So I'm going to click on the picture itself.
- 03:12 Let me click off of it, back onto the picture.
- 03:15 I'm going to right click on the picture, I'm going to come down to Format Picture.
- 03:19 And inside here, we have a transparency section.
- 03:22 And I could type 50% or I could just move my levers as close to 50% as possible,
- 03:26 and hit OK.
- 03:27 And there you go,
- 03:28 now I can see the text in the background wrapping into the actual picture.
- 03:33 So let's see, yeah, it turned white there for a second, and
- 03:37 usually that's just a screen refresh issue.
- 03:40 Now, if you don't like how it looks like, Begin by first dragging,
- 03:43 it doesn't seem quite right.
- 03:45 Well, let's move that a little bit, there we go, Begin by first dragging.
- 03:48 The words are still going to wrap the way they want to wrap.
- 03:51 There's only so much we can do here, but it's kind of a cool feature.
- 03:55 The final touch was turning in on that transparency.
- 03:57 Now, maybe that's not the effect you wanted at all, well hopefully,
- 04:01 it's pretty close.
- 04:02 It gives you a little bit of control over the wrapping.
- 04:05 I would practice with that and see what you can do, if it solves the issue you're
- 04:09 having in what you want to accomplish with your effects in your publication.
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