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238 Text Handling

Alternatively right click on the object and select REPELLING & ANCHORING to display the
TEXT REPELLING & ANCHORING dialog.

Click the REPEL TEXT AROUND THIS GRAPHIC checkbox. And if you want the text to repel
as a rectangle around an object, click the RECTANGULAR REPELLING option as well. With
this option what happens is that the text repels around the rectangular bounding box of
the object, ignoring its outline. This is also more efficient if your document or website has
long text flows and has a lot of repelling objects that are also anchored to the text. It is
also the default option when you turn repelling on for rectangular objects.

Text repelling around an object (left) and rectangular repelling (right).
If desired, set a repel margin for the object to set the space between the text and the
object. If you want a different height and width for the repel margin, click the padlock
symbol and enter the margin height in the H (horizontal) box and width in the V (vertical)
box. Click OK.

To turn off repelling right click the object and choose the REPEL TEXT UNDER option again
to deselect it. Or right click and select REPELLING & ANCHORING to display the Text
repelling & anchoring dialog again. Click the REPEL TEXT AROUND THIS GRAPHIC checkbox
to deselect it and click OK.

Note that single lines of text do not respond to repelling objects, only text areas and text
columns do.