

Enter the measurements you prefer in the box of Height and Width. In Picture Tools, click Format tab and go to Size group. (How you convert text boxes to frames has been covered in other issues of WordTips. Select the image which you want to resize. If you prefer, you can also convert the text box to a frame, since Word permits a frame to be formatted so the height is automatically adjusted. (Go figure-sounds goofy, but it seems to work.) If you set the width and the check box at the same time, then some versions of Word take that as an indication that it is OK to resize the width of the text box as necessary. TotalLength TotalLength - SpaceWidth ' Replaces a space with a line feed. TotalLength TotalLength - WordWidths (m) ' Reduce the length required by word length. You'll note that the Size tab of the Format Text Box dialog box allows you to set the width of the text box. NewCaption NewCaption & Words (m) & vbCrLf ' Words that will fit + line feed. When performing these steps, make sure you set the width of the text box (step 2) separate from specifying the "resize" setting (step 5). Make sure the Resize AutoShape to Fit Text check box is selected.The Text Box tab of the Format Text Box dialog box. Make sure the Text Box tab is displayed.Word displays the Format Text Box dialog box.

Right-click the text box and choose Format Text Box from the resulting Context menu.Adjust the width of your text box to reflect what you need.First, you should try formatting the text box so it can expand. There are a couple of things you can try. This would allow the height of the text box to expand, based on the amount of text you place in it, without adjusting the width and messing up your page layout. If you use text boxes as a design element in your documents, you may want a way to create a text box that is a particular width but has no set height.
