• How do I create magnetic poetry style boxes around Words?

    From WhoSentYou@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 9 20:30:21 2021
    Hi there,

    I'm working on a special book of the correspondence I've had over the
    years with my wife, as a gift for her.**

    I had an idea to include a magnetic poem I once wrote for her - you
    know, with those little squares and rectangles with words that you can
    stick on the fridge?* The poem loses most of its charm if I just
    transcribe it into words, to the point that it's not worth including
    that way.**

    I can't print images in that section of the book, but I'm wondering
    whether I might be able to recreate the blocks around the words to give
    them the "magnetic poem" effect.* Sort of like this (this isn't my poem;
    just an example):

    https://imgur.com/5mNt2MI

    But translated into boxes surrounding the words on Word.* Are there
    different ways/approaches in which I could achieve this?

    I noticed there's a feature called "Insert -> text box" and tried that,
    but it creates a huge box that I then have to manually shape, and it
    seems like if I'm writing a lot of words and each have to be surrounded
    by a box of more or less the same proportions/width around each word,
    this would be a nightmare.* Is there a way for a box to just appear
    around what I'm writing and adjust to the space of it, or even as I
    type?

    It would also be great to be able to add shadows to the box for effect.

    Any insight would be really appreciated; thanks so much!




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  • From Peter T. Daniels@21:1/5 to WhoSentYou on Sat Jan 9 14:14:54 2021
    You can make one text box, sized it to fit an ordinary word, and
    before you type anything into it, select it and copy it to the
    clipboard (Ctrl-C). You can then paste it (Ctrl-V) into your text
    and type a word in it. You can then reduce the width of the box
    (by dragging one of the sides). Much easier.

    Get the size right in step 1 by typing a word and adjusting the
    box to its size, then delete the word you typed. (Or, you could
    copy the box with the first word in it and overtype that word.)

    On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 3:31:06 PM UTC-5, WhoSentYou wrote:
    Hi there,

    I'm working on a special book of the correspondence I've had over the
    years with my wife, as a gift for her.**

    I had an idea to include a magnetic poem I once wrote for her - you
    know, with those little squares and rectangles with words that you can
    stick on the fridge?* The poem loses most of its charm if I just
    transcribe it into words, to the point that it's not worth including
    that way.**

    I can't print images in that section of the book, but I'm wondering
    whether I might be able to recreate the blocks around the words to give
    them the "magnetic poem" effect.* Sort of like this (this isn't my poem;
    just an example):

    https://imgur.com/5mNt2MI

    But translated into boxes surrounding the words on Word.* Are there
    different ways/approaches in which I could achieve this?

    I noticed there's a feature called "Insert -> text box" and tried that,
    but it creates a huge box that I then have to manually shape, and it
    seems like if I'm writing a lot of words and each have to be surrounded
    by a box of more or less the same proportions/width around each word,
    this would be a nightmare.* Is there a way for a box to just appear
    around what I'm writing and adjust to the space of it, or even as I
    type?

    It would also be great to be able to add shadows to the box for effect.

    Any insight would be really appreciated; thanks so much!

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