I have a drawing tablet. The idea is to print out an image and place it on the tablet. I will be able to accurately draw on MS paint. The problem is that the drawing area of the tablet is larger than the area I need to replicate. What I need to do is put a textbox or frame on a MS .dotx. I need another smaller textbox or frame squarely inside the outer one. And finally, to be able to inset a picture and resize it to the size of the inner one. That way, I can use this by cutting out the outer paper to the size of the outer frame and place it on the tablet. The image will fit perfectly for me to draw on.



I know this sounds odd, but I need a box within a box that I can insert a jpg into the inner one. I know how to use text wrapping but this is different. I think the inner box would have to be placed relative to the position of the larger box. Maybe a text box is the wrong object to use.

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Desmond.

Another problem now. Windows does not give me the dimentions of a JPG. Or paint for that matter.

You could use a table inside the textbox. By giving that table a fixed width and height, any image you insert into it will automatically be constrained to fit the available space at the correct aspect ratio. Tables inserted into Textboxes can be left, center, or right aligned. For vertical positioning, you can insert a paragraph before the table and adjust its before/after spacing, line spacing and/or point size.

To set the fixed:
• row height, use Table Tools>Layout>Properties>Row>Specify Height>Exactly.
• column width, first uncheck the 'automatically resize to fit contents' option under Table Tools>Layout>Properties>Table>Options. Then set the preferred column width under Table Tools>Layout>Properties>Columns.
You might also want to set the cell margins to 0 all round. It's also a good idea to format the cell paragraph with 0 before/after spacing.

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I am nearly there. The only problem is when insert a jpg into a word document, it comes with a larger frame. Attaching the document. When you click on the image, you see that the image is inside a larger frame that makes alignment difficult. I need the jpg to be the same size as it's container.

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Tablet-2.docx (295.6 KB, 6 views)

But you didn't do as I suggested...

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