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Group page elements

In Page view, do the following:

Place elements in a position box

  1. Click Show All Show All button on the standard toolbar to display paragraph markers.

  2. In the Normal pane, position the insertion point where you want to put a position box, and then press ENTER twice to insert a new blank line.
  3. Select the blank line, making sure to include the paragraph marker.
  4. On the Format menu, click Position.
  5. Choose a positioning style:
  6. Click inside the position box, and then insert a page element.
  7. Select the page element.
  8. On the Format menu, click Position, and then click Absolute.
  9. Repeat steps 6 through 8 for each page element you want to place in the position box.

    Tip

    You can also specify several properties by using the Positioning toolbar. To display the Positioning toolbar, click the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Positioning.

Specify the location of a position box

The position box must have absolute positioning applied; otherwise it will move with the text flow of the page. Follow the procedure in the preceding section (Place elements in a position box) if you want to apply absolute positioning.
  1. Hide paragraph markers and HTML tags if they're activated.

    How?

    Important   HTML tags and nonprinting characters are not part of the layout, but when you display them on the screen while editing, they change the appearance of the layout.

  2. Specify the element's location:

    Tip

    You can also specify several properties by using the Positioning toolbar. To display the Positioning toolbar, click the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Positioning.