Setting the Wrapping Default for Objects

I have a Word 2016 macro to insert a text box with a single text element. I can get the text box to appear with no border and no background however what I haven't been able to find is the code to set the wrapping to "Behind Text". Is this possible? How?

I have Word 2016. This tip does not work for me.

The approach to text boxes in Word is a prime example of the maddening childishness of this program -- why does every instance of inserting a text box have to tout this as a way to "grab your reader's attention"? Why do I need to have a whole panel of different text box types to chose from every time I want to insert a text box as if I have never created a text box before. Can't it just insert my default text box without having to choose "simple text box" and make several adjustments then to what it leaves on the page? Can I change the normal template somehow?

Anyway, I see your instructions and the MS instructions but I still find no way to get the formatting or layout in later boxes to actually conform to this "default" text wrapping to follow what I have created in what I have designated a by default. Nor do the subsequent boxes mirror the "default", either in dimension or position of the later boxes. Font and border seem to be the only formatting that goes into the default. And actually at the context menu level of text wrapping, the choices for "Wrap text" have "Set as default layout" greyed out, though it suggests that "Default test box" and "Default layout" are separate things.

By the way, the "default" wrapping for me has always been "none," the opposite as for Don.

So the result is that what it takes one click in WordPerfect takes four clicks in Word, Just to get an empty text box on the screen with the correct wrapping I have used in every other text box. Then it takes mouse work to drag it to the dimensions and location that I want typically.

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Is there a way to set the default for a new drawing canvass?

Robin

This works if the coupon is required at the bottom of the first page of the document.

1. Double click in the footer of the first page. In the Design banner tick Different first page

2. Insert in the footer a textbox containing the coupon.

3. Set the textbox wrapping style to top and bottom

4. In More Layout Options, set the vertical position to absolute below page

5. Drag the textbox up into the main text page so that it is just inside the margin.

Working in Word 10.This is an invoice form involving a table, a footer (or text box), and merge fields. As the table expands with invoice info, it then continues to the next page(s). That's all good. Directly after the tale are more merge fields indicating notes about the invoice information. This info will contain a little or a lot of info, depending on the invoice info in the table. In the footer is a coupon that the customer cuts off and returns. In the footer is the coupon the customer returns with payment.

The problem is that the next section page excludes the footer because only one coupon is needed. The problem is that when I delete the footer in the next section, if there is more than one page of tables with inv. info, it continues printing the coupon until the next section.

I also tried fix positioning a text box at the bottom of page 1. As inv. info is merged into the table and it expands, it works fine as long as it doesn't push to another page, at which point the text box then moves.

Is there any way around either of these two methods? Can you suggest anything to try? I hope this hasn't been confusing. Thanks.

Is there a way perhaps to accomplish this with building blocks? We have 4 or 5 different types of graphic containers and it wrap methods used over and over and are desperate for a way to automate. It seems they have done this for text boxes and tables with the ability to create styles and text boxes. But what about graphics holders and combined text / graphics features we do so much?

Thank you for the information about setting defaults for text wrapping. It was very helpful.