All of the commands and features available to a "full screen"
word processing document are also available to active word processing
frames. The environment inside a word processing frame is identical
to the environment of a full-page word processing document.
However, word processing frames have a few additional features
that allow you to link the text in one frame to the text in another
frame. Moreover, frames can be cloned, colored, and bordered unlike
regular word processing documents.
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.
In-Line Frames
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.
To Create a New In-Line Frame
- Position the insertion-point (blinking bar) where you want
to place the new in-line frame.
- From the Frame menu, select Insert Frame,
then select the type of frame you wish to insert.
The examples in this topic are concerned with word processing frames,
however you can insert any type of frame in this way.
Floating Frames
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.
To Create a New Floating Frame
- Show the ToolBar, if it is not already displayed. To show the
ToolBar, select Show ToolBar from the Window
menu.
- From the Frame Tool, select the frame you wish to insert. The
cursor changes to a cross-hair.

- Draw the frame in the workspace.
- Text in the full-screen word processing document flows around
the floating frame.
- To specify how the text wraps around the floating frame, select
the frame. You know the frame is selected when there are
"handles" around the frame and the content of the frame
is not active. If the frame is active, you will need to click
outside the frame, then click once again on the frame.
- Select Text Wrap from the Arrange menu. Or select the Text
Wrap button from the displayed graphics Part Bar. A Text Wrap
dialog box with the different wrapping styles is displayed. Proceed
to choose how you want the text to wrap around the floating frame.

Linked Word Processing Frames

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.
To Create a Linked Word Processing Frame Set
- Create a floating word processing frame.
- Select the frame. If the frame is active, you will need to
click outside the frame, then click once on the frame again.
- From the Frame menu, select Make Linked Frame. The program creates
a new frame identical to the selected frame. Text will flow from
the original frame to the linked frame.
- You can now enter text into the first frame. When the text
flow reaches the end of the frame, it wraps to the linked frame
regardless of where the linked text frame is placed.
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.
To Clone a Frame
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.

- Select the frame you want to clone.
- Select Clone Frame from the Frames menu.
An exact duplicate of the frame is created.
AutoGrow & ScrollBars
Non-linked, word processing frames can be configured to auto-grow
vertically or horizontally and display scroll bars.
- Select the frame you wish to configure.
- From the Frame menu, select the option(s) you wish
to apply to the frame.
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.
Opening a Frame
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.
To Open a Frame
- Select the frame you want to open.
- Select Open Frame Window from the Frame menu. The contents
of the frame are opened into a new, full-screen document.
- When finished editing the contents of the open frame document
close the window. You can save the contents of the frame
to another document file if necessary.
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