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Reminder: When selected, a frame is like any other graphic item. You can fill it with color, border it with a pen color, and rotate it in any direction. The options described in this section apply only to word processing frames. |
You can create a word processing frame in any document type, including a word processing document. There are essentially two ways to create a new word processing frame. You can create an In-Line Frame or a Floating Frame. Remember, you can always copy or cut a frame from one document or sheet to another.
An in-line frame is inserted directly into the flow of text in a full-screen word processing document. The frame gets treated like a character and as such is affected by indentation and alignment. However, text styles, size, and font properties do not affect an in-line text frame.
In-line frames are useful if you want the frame to stay in the same position relative to the text. When inserted in-line, text inside the full-screen document wraps around the frame borders.
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Reminder: Hitting the Escape Key while editing an in-line frame will move the insertion point to the main document. |
A floating frame is placed in a special graphics layer that exists above the full-screen word processing document. A floating frame is not directly tied to the text flow, thus it does not move with the text in the full-screen word processing document. The floating frame can be moved anywhere within the document, though, by selecting it and using the mouse. You can also specify how text in the full-screen word processing document wraps around the floating frame.
Linked frames are a great way to layout text flows into multiple frames. For example, if you had a long selection of text that needed to be placed in different locations on the same page, two linked frames could handle this design.
Generally, layouts such as this would be better suited for a graphics document. However, you can place linked word processing frames like this in any document type, including word processing documents.
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NOTE: In-line frames cannot be linked. Only floating frames can be linked. |
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Reminder: Linked frames have a specific order. If you create three linked frames, text flows from the first, to the second, to the third frames in order. |
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NOTE: Linked frames do not wrap between sheets or other document files. |
If you delete one of the frames in the linked set, the other frames "pick up the slack". None of the text is deleted unless the entire frame set is deleted. Likewise, if you copy one frame in the set to another document or sheet, all the text in the frame set is copied to the new location.
If you need an exact duplicate of a word processing frame, cloning is the solution. Cloned frames are "live-linked" to each other. Making edits in one frame duplicates the same changes to the other frame. This can be very useful if you need to have the same text or graphics in different places within a document. Using a series of cloned frames, you can make a change to one frame and all the other frames change as well.
Non-linked, word processing frames can be configured to auto-grow vertically or horizontally and display scroll bars.
AutoGrow Horizontally: The frame automatically resizes horizontally to accommodate text as it is entered.
AutoGrow Vertically: The frame automatically resizes vertically to accommodate text as it is entered.
ScrollBars: The frame displays vertical scroll bars.
The Open Frame Window feature allows you to select any frame in your document and open the contents of that frame into a separate window. This can be useful if you need to edit the contents of a particularly large frame.
Frame windows are somewhat limited in their functionality because they are "live-linked" to the original document window. You can format the items in the frame including editing text, cells, or graphics. However many document features such as headers and footers and setting margins are not available.
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NOTE: The new document created when you open a frame is only for editing the contents of the frame. You will not be able to add other frames or graphic items to the document. |
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