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I Am Doing A Project For My Daughter. I Have Inserted A Picture Of An Open Book That Has Empty Pages. I Am Trying To Write Some Text Over The Blank Pages Of The Book. I Did Get It To Work By Typing Into The Text Box And I Did Get It Placed Where I Wanted. Then If I Print It, Or Open The Saved Project, The Typing Is There And Can Be Seen. If I Try To Send It Anywhere Else The Book Shows Up But Not The Text??? Am I Doing Something Wrong? Is There A Better Way To Do This???

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You To Anyone Who Knows The Answer To This..........

 

[gistek]

I'm assuming you're using Word for this project.

You don't have to use text boxes unless you have a lot of very complex positionings to worry about.

I am also going to assume you want a landscape formatted page with an open book as your background.

After you insert the image, be sure to set its layout properties to Centered on Page and Behind Text.

You can also resize it so that it fits your page. (I set my background image to 7.5 x 10 so it's .5" from each page edge, and my margins to 1" all around. THis gives my text a nice border inside the image.)

Next, set the columns to two and enter the text want to see. You can force columns by inserting a column break. (Insert, Break, Column)

This should permit the file to be e-mailed and have the text and image show.

When you finish the project, I recommend printing to pdf format. Pdf's e-mail much better than Word files.

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You can also set the picture as an actual "background" but there are fewer options for manipulating a background than an inserted picture.

Pull down the Format menu highlight Background and select Fill Effects. Click the Picture tab and Select the picture of the open book from whatever subdirectory you have stored it.