RE Text to flow around shape

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RE Text to flow around shape

In Pages 08 or 09 - Is it possible to get text to flow or follow around e.g. a sircle or anoter shape?

What I am thinking of here, is something simular to word-art in MS word.

You got some bad advice and accepted it and closed the topic.

It's absolutely possible to have text flow around a shape. In word processing mode, highlight/select the shape/image, click the Inspector>Wrap. Set Wrap=yes. You can define how the text wraps around the shape, above-below only, surround, etc.. you can even define how closely the text wraps to the shape.

Wait a little bit the next time you ask a question. The first person responding may not have the answer.

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Posted on Jan 24, 2011 8:29 AM

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Answer 1

fruhulda

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Jan 24, 2011 8:39 AM in response to Karl_out_West

Karl - Are you sure the asker asked about text wrapping?? The Asker asked about something like Word Art in MS Word and that is not about wrapping text. He hopefully checked the advise before marking the thread solved.

Why the topic is Archived as soon as it got solved I don't know. The threads usually don't get archived when solved.

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Jan 24, 2011 8:44 AM in response to Karl_out_West

Karl

If you hang out here for a bit longer you will find that what the OP asks and what they mean can be two very different things. We have learnt to take what they say, often poorly expressed, with a grain of salt.

However as fruhulda has rightly pointed out here the original OP asked about MsWord's Word Art and appears not to have been asking about text wrap.

Peter

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May 10, 2012 8:31 AM in response to Karl_out_West

What if the wrap selections within the inspector are not highlighted. Apple advertised Text/Word Wrapping when it introduced it's first Graphics cabable wordprocessor -AppleWorksGS. 30 years later why does it still have to be so difficult for the user to figure out?

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May 10, 2012 7:06 AM in response to davidfromweaverville

Was that a comment or a rhetorical question?

Peter

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May 10, 2012 8:56 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Nope, wasn't rhetorical at all, Just wonder why it still has to be so hard to find. I did finally figure out that if I copied the pic into the Pages doc. from I-Photo via the Media Icon/tool, the text began to wrap. I was frustrated before while trying to finalize a bio before my partner left so she could take it by a gallery displaying her work for an upcoming show. I remember wishing for this capablilty in the late 1980's and was really frustrated because in MS Word 2008 for Mac I couldn't find any possibilty of Word or Text Wrapping and within Pages 2011, I could not get the necessary menu to highlight and therefore work. If Mac just used the right mouse button and allowed icons, etc. to show up when moused over and help links to pop up when right clicked on, it would save soo much time.

Thanks for your post, it eventually helped me.

Dave

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fruhulda

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May 10, 2012 11:10 AM in response to davidfromweaverville

You have to select the object you want to have a wrap around. If you don't how else will the computer know what you want to work with in the document?

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