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Old 03-10-2015, 05:04 PM
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What would be the most efficient and easiest way in Microsoft Word 2013 to achieve this effect:





I would have more than one of these text boxes in my document, each with different titles and text.
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Old 03-10-2015, 09:14 PM
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You will need two text boxes.

The red lined box will contain the 'text here' content and have the text box margin at the top set a little larger to get the first paragraph to sit lower.
The 'Core Capabilities' text box will have a white fill and needs to be positioned manually.

You will probably find that putting both into a drawing canvas will reduce the likelihood of relative positioning issues.
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Old 03-10-2015, 11:31 PM
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If you use the draw textbox function to create the two text boxes, the drawing canvas should not be necessary, however for ease of re-insertion, remove the text, select the two inserted boxes press ALT+F3 and save as an autotext entry in either the document template or the normal template.
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Old 03-11-2015, 12:18 AM
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Gosh – that's the :lblbox element from IBM BookMaster, alive and well decades later :-} Interesting to read this Word workaround.
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Old 03-11-2015, 04:28 AM
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Once you have the positioning down, consider "grouping" the two text boxes. You may have to ungroup to resize, though.
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This is quite an old thread now, but I recently wanted to achieve this same effect. I used a table (3 rows and 5 columns), some merged cells, and then coloured the borders. I also found it helpful to fix the width of columns 2 and 4.

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