What Is The Auto Command For Wrap Text Mac

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I know that I can use something like cat test.txt | pr -w 80 to wrap lines to 80 characters wide, but that puts a lot of space on the top and bottom of the printed lines and it does not work right on some systems

What's the best way to force a text file with long lines to be wrapped at a certain width?

Bonus points if you can keep it from breaking words.

Selecting this option will wrap the text of the file at the specified column number AND insert a hard return, which does make an actual change to the data in your file. The column number is specified in the 'Wrap Column #' text field to the right. Oct 14, 2017  Microsoft Word helps you incorporate images and text together in order to illustrate a document. You can learn to wrap text around images in order to change the default settings. Text wrapping allows you to place text behind an image, in front. All you will have to do is click on the icon and click on the wrap text. If you leave it little Format cells window on alignment when you close it, it will be available to you with only 2 clicks. Once on the icon and then on “wrap text”.

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  • -w tells the width of the text, where 80 is standard.
  • -s tells to break at spaces, and not in words.

This is the standard way, but there are other systems, which need '-c' instead of '-w'.

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In addition to fold, take a look at fmt. fmt tries to choose line breaks intelligently to make text look good. It doesn't break long words, rather it wraps only by spaces. It will also join adjacent lines, which is good for prose but bad for log files or other formatted text.

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1) assured fixed line width with word breaking:

2) assured fixed line width with extraordinary word breaking (a word gets broken only if it is too large to fit in a line):

3) promising fixed line width without any word breaking (if word is too large to fit in a line, it is still left as it is, so finally some lines may be larger in size than you need):

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Another (less known) tool that does what you want is wrap from GNU Talkfilters:

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but that puts a lot of space on the top and bottom of the printed lines

add -t when invoking pr to omit headers/trailers:

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And for more formatting options, look at par -- http://www.nicemice.net/par/

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worked for me as I need splitting every line till 100 characters

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All the text wrapping options you see in Word are for regular text (i.e., not in a text box) to wrap around the text box itself or an object, and not vice versa. This includes pictures inserted as inline.
In order to make a text box's text wrap around an object:
  • Right-click on the text box and select Format shape (or select the text box and choose Format in the main menu bar)
  • Select Layout > Advanced
  • Click on the Position tab at the top
  • Enable 'Wrap text within text boxes for overlay objects' all the way at the bottom
Proof of concept:
If you need to overlap two text boxes, you'll have to add a shape and make one of the text boxes wrap around it. The shape has to be 'in front' for the text to wrap. Finally, make the shape colorless:

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Daniel, when I follow your instructions above, I do not seem to have a selection for 'Wrap text within text boxes for overlay objects'
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I now have 14.3.6 (you should update through Help > Check for Updates).
You are right, the instructions I gave in the second bullet were somewhat abbreviated. I've now edited them. Here's the checkbox in question:
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I wish I could do this but my version of Word for Mac 14.3.9 does not offer the 'wrap text within text boxes for overlay objects' option - everything else yes, but not that. It's intensely frustrating to be able to do this on the PC but not on the Mac

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When a text box is first inserted, it may have its default wrapping style set to 'inline.' Such being the case, the option you need is not available:

However, changing the wrapping style to other than 'In line with text' causes the missing option to reappear:

To control the default parameters of a text box, just define them like you want, then right click on the text box and select 'Set as default Text Box.'

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The option should be grayed out, not disappear altogether!

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Hi Daniel,

I am using Version 14.4.3 Word for Mac 2011. Even after I selected the 'Wrap text within text boxes for overlay objects', I still can't wrap the text around the picture within the text box. I can't even change the wrapping style from the default 'in line with text' to anything else. Would you please advise me what I may have done wrong? Thanks.

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No, you can't. Images inserted into a Text Box can be In Line with Text only.

The previous conversations have pertained to having text in a Text Box wrap around images/objects external to the Text Box.

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No, you can't. Images inserted into a Text Box can be In Line with Text only.

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The previous conversations have pertained to having text in a Text Box wrap around images/objects external to the Text Box.

I see. Daniel, I misunderstood your instruction. I got it to work, but sometimes the 'Wrap text within text boxes for overlay objects' just doesn't show up even if I have changed the 'in line with text' to 'square' or 'tight'.

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