The object doesn't appear in the right place when I return to
Microsoft Publisher.
If you add any pictures, shapes, tables, or drawing objects to the story in Microsoft Word, they will be converted to Publisher objects, and placed in your publication. You might need to re-position them.
There is more text than appears in the text
box.
If there is more text than the text box can hold, Publisher stores the extra text in the overflow area, where you can't see it. If there is text in the overflow area, a Text in Overflow indicator appears at the lower-right corner of the text box.
Here are some ways to get your text out of the overflow area and back into your publication.
How?
Connect the filled text box to another text box. Any extra text is displayed in the other text box.
How?
When you connect text boxes, text that won't fit into the first text box flows into the next text box. A chain of connected text boxes, also known as a story, can span multiple pages.
Use connected boxes to:
- Continue a story in another text box
- Create columns of different widths
- Move text from the overflow area into another box
- If needed, create a new text box.
How?
- On the Objects toolbar, click Text Box
or Vertical Text Box
.
- In your publication, point to where you want one corner of the text to appear, and then drag diagonally until you have the box size you want.
- Click in the text box you want as the first text box in the story.
- On the Connect Boxes toolbar, click Create Text Box Link
.
The mouse pointer changes to a pitcher
.
- Click in the text box you want as the next in the story.
This text box is now connected to the first box and any text in the overflow area now appears in the next box.
- To connect more text boxes to the story, repeat steps 3 and 4.
How?
- Click the text box.
- On the Format menu, point to AutoFit Text.
- Do one of the following:
- To shrink or expand text to fit in the text box when you resize the box, click Best Fit.
- To reduce the point size of text until there is no text in the overflow area, click Shrink Text On Overflow.
After this, whenever you resize the text box, the font size remains the same.