RELATED: How to Wrap Text Around Pictures and Other Illustrations in Microsoft Word Understanding how to wrap text around objects is an important part of getting objects positioned the way you want, so if you’re not already familiar with how it works, we highly recommend you read our guide on the subject. When you set an object’s text wrapping to be in front of the text, the object appears on top of any text, and you can move it to any position you want. If you type or paste text before or after the object, it moves along the line and down the page just like any other text character. When you set an object’s text wrapping to be in line with text, Word treats the object in question as a text character. Hopefully this will save someone else some time pulling out their hair wondering why a text box that they’ve deleted heaps of times before in other documents won’t delete now.Before we get to those positioning tools, though, you should know a bit about text wrapping. By default, when you insert images and other illustration objects into your document, Word applies one of two forms of text wrapping: “in line with text” (for images and most other illustration objects) or “in front of text” (for shapes and 3D models). That’s where I saw the check box that prevented it from being deleted:Īll it took was to clear that check box, click OK, and I could delete the text box successfully. To check the content control’s properties, I had to select the control, then go to the Developer tab, and click Properties. Here’s what one of these content controls looks like (Note: they don’t exist in Word 2003): Once I cleared that check box, I could delete the content control and its surrounding text box.
Then I noticed that it had a content control box for the title and wondered if that could be the culprit - it was! Someone had set the properties for that content control to stop it from being deleted. I had a devil of a time trying to delete a text box from the cover page of a Word 2007/2010 document the other day.
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