Convert Text Box Information

For Microsoft Word Processing documents (DOCX) that have the KeyView format MS_Word_2007_Fmt, XML Export exposes the information from the file that is used to position text boxes on the page.

The TextBox element surrounds text that was contained in a positioned text box, and it has the following format: 

<TextBox width="6.75in" height="0.75in" anchor-horizontal="column" anchor-vertical="paragraph" offset-x="0.25in" offset-y="4in">

The width, height, offset-x, and offset-y elements are all lengths in inches. The following tables describe the possible options for the anchor-horizontal and anchor-vertical attributes.

anchor-horizontal options
anchor-horizontal value Description
character offset-x is relative to the current position in the text.
page offset-x is relative to the left border of the page.
margin offset-x is relative to the left margin.
column offset-x is relative to the left of the current column.
anchor-vertical options
anchor-vertical value Description
line offset-y is relative to the current position in the text.
page offset-y is relative to the top border of the page.
margin offset-y is relative to the top margin.
paragraph offset-y is relative to the top of the current paragraph.