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Christian Knell

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For creating something like an Org chart, you can make your life a lot easier if you turn on or adjust some of the Format &gt;&nbsp;Align settings first.<br />

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<li>Align &gt;&nbsp;Grid settings... lets you turn on and adjust grid options to help get consistently-sized objects. The grid can be toggled on or off, but you can also have objects snap to the grid even if visibility is turned off. If boxes tend to snap together when they are close, turn off the &quot;Snap objects to other objects&quot; checkbox.</li>
<li>Alignment Guides can be turned on to display automatic guidelines to help position objects relative to one another or parts of the page.</li>
<li>When you move an object with alignment guides turned on, press the Shift key to constrain the objects to the page, margin or paragraph guides — and pressing Alt will constrain to the gridlines.</li>
<li>When you have gridlines turned on, pressing Alt as you draw will constrain an object's shape to fit to the gridlines.</li>
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Eric - I think you are referring to features of MS PowerPoint. The author is using MS Word.<br />
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Having said that PPT would be much better for this.
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Grid and Guides dialog for current version of Word

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Apologies, I hadn't realised that those features had been introduced in MS Word.
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Thanks a lot, Eric, Rob and John,<br />
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sorry for my late reply. Your solutions would have been suitable in our case if the org chart structure in the existing word document wasn't that compressed. The text boxes had to be placed exactly one underneath another.<br />
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Finally I used a little word macro which saves the settings of the first selected textbox and accordingly changes width and position of the following ones.<br />
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Sub TextboxenAusrichten()<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; Application.ScreenUpdating<wbr /> = False<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; With Selection.ShapeRange(1)<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; .RelativeVerticalPosition = wdRelativeVerticalPosition<wbr />Page<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; Links = .Left<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;Breite = .Width<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; Oben = .Top<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; End With<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; <br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; For x = 2 To Selection.ShapeRange.Count<wbr /><br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; With Selection.ShapeRange(x)<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; .RelativeVerticalPosition = wdRelativeVerticalPosition<wbr />Page<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; .Left = Links<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; .Width = Breite<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; .Top = Oben + Selection.ShapeRange(x - 1).Height<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Oben = .Top<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; End With<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; Next x<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; Application.ScreenUpdating<wbr /> = True<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; MsgBox &quot;Done&quot;<br />
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End Sub<br />
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Thanks a lot and best regards!<br />
Chris
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Thanks Chris — and interesting solution with the macro!
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I have a very complicated org Chart in Word 2013. I need to align several (many!) text boxes one after another, so that they don't overlap. I tried Format / Align / Align Top. Unfortunately the text boxes all align at the very top, not one after another. Any idea?
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I have a very complicated org Chart in Word 2013. I need to align several (many!) text boxes one after another, so that they don't overlap. I tried Format / Align / Align Top. Unfortunately the text boxes all align at the very top, not one after another. Any idea?

Word 2013: Align text boxes one after another without overlapping

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