Reset text bounding box in Publisher?

[Silenceisgrand]

Hi all,

Looked through tons of posts, including the "workaround" in Designer via shapes and what's not. Can't seem to find any posts on the simple task to reset a default text bounding box. Basically, adding a text to a page, maybe an entire paragraph, as soon as the bounding box no longer fits the text, alignment etc gets really tricky. Am I missing something or does Publisher really not have a simple reset function either?

Or maybe there is a way to align to the actual text content and not the box boundaries that I missed?

Edited October 16, 2024 by Silenceisgrand

[Hangman]

Hi @Silenceisgrand and welcome to the forums,

Can you upload a screengrab of what you are trying to achieve and what you are seeing that isn't working...

[Silenceisgrand]

Right, sorry, not very good at explaining things in wording.  So, in the attached example, I have three words with "messed up" bounding boxes. If I want to align in this case Layer/Alignment/Align Center, I get the second outcome. If I try Text/Alignment/Align Center it moves only the word "Hello". Only way seems to be to manually adjust the bounding box to a tight fit for it to actually work as intended, in the third case. Which of course is not very precise. What am I missing? Is there a way to just "reset" the bounding limits to a tight fit around text?

[pbasdf]

21 minutes ago, Silenceisgrand said:

Is there a way to just "reset" the bounding limits to a tight fit around text?

Double clicking the edge of the bounding box should do it.

[Silenceisgrand]

Just now, pbasdf said:

Double clicking the edge of the bounding box should do it.

Yes, it works!! So easy! Thank you so much!! 

[bbrother]

@Silenceisgrand Try this:

1. Select the messed up text frames.
2. Go to Layer → Convert to Art Text. 
3. Got to Layer → Convert to Text Frame.

Step 2 should make the bounding boxes tight but on the other hand it will also change the Layer type from `Frame Text` to `Art Text`. Step 3 will change the layer back to `Text Frame` while preserve the tight box. After that you should be able to precise align. No need to manually double clicking on bounding boxes for all frames.

EDIT: You can skip step 3 if layer type is not a priority. Good luck.