How to Wrap Text Around an Object in PageMaker

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Make your Adobe PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 documents for Windows and Macintosh look slick and professional by flowing text around your graphics. The PageMaker Text Wrap feature helps you wrap text around graphics objects on the page.

Difficulty: Moderately challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

PageMaker 6.5 (Mac OS)
PageMaker 6.5 (Windows)

Step 1

Place an object (graphic or polygon) on the page either before or after you enter the text.
Step 2

Select the object.
Step 3

Go to the Element menu and select Text Wrap.
Step 4

Select the wrap option or text flow option you want to use. These are depicted as icons that mean: wrap text through the graphic, wrap text around, flow text above, flow text above and below, and flow text around.
Step 5

Choose the text flow.
Step 6

Enter the Standoff amount in inches to create a space between the text and graphic.
Step 7

Select Wrap Text on Same Layer Only to make text on other layers ignore the text wrap selections. If you don't have other layers or if you want all layers to recognize the text wrap, ignore this step.
Step 8

Click OK.

Tips & Warnings

Practice using this feature until you become comfortable with it. It's easy to be confused. If you make a mistake, use the Undo command in the Edit menu.

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