Aligning text boxes

I have a form that must be filled electronically and then printed
there are 100 text boxes that will have one letter in each
How can I get the 5 x 20 boxes to align so that they look like a grid rather then a bunch of slightly overlapping boxes?

What I would do is to create a table with 5 columns and 20 rows. If each cell also needs a label,I would change the Caption Position on the Layout tab to either Left or Right. If you do not want to see the grid you can remove the border from the table and each cell.

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Have you applied any service pack for Crystal Reports?
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I created a client questionnaire in Word and then turn it into a PDF and created the text boxes necessary. The problem I am having in Adobe XI Pro is that I want all of the text in my text boxes to be centrally aligned rather than left aligned. However, when creating and editing the text boxes, I see no option to help me do so. When clients fill out the form it looks messy because the information that the fill in tables in not centrally aligned, so it makes my tables look poorly organised. Help would be much appreciated, thank you.

In Form Edit mode, right-click the field(s) and select Properties - Options, and under Alignment select "Center".

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I am very new to Indesign and I am signed up to Lynda.com so watching few a lot of tutorials, that said I need help with aligning text.
I have a text box that is 100mm across. It has text centered. "£5"
then above this I have in a smaller font saying "from"
from
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Hello,
Im moving from QuarkXpress to InDesign, and Im setting up styles, templates, libraries, etc...
The issue Im having is that when I add an image with a text caption box in one of the columns, the text that wraps around the caption text box, no longer aligns to the other columns, its off. I can't get it to realign to the other columns.
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1. Is the leading of your caption the same as the body text? If not, you have to choose to align the top of the first line (slightly jarring) or bottom of the last line.
2. It appears to me you have the caption vertically centred. That will make it far harder.
To make it feasible to do manually, you can set the caption box text frame to start at offset "Leading", move the text frame to start exactly at the bottom of the image, and make sure all your images' heights are multiples of your leading. Group the caption frame and the caption box to make moving around easier.
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Figure-1: This is the default behavior for right-aligned text.
Figure-2: The is what I want the result to look like.

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Okay, I think I see where the problem lies - though you had me stumped for a moment there!
So I see that you have the text box that contains your table assisting you in aligning your table to the center of your page. (i.e. the text box container is arranged around the outside of the page and the table is centered lef/right using paragraph centering and top/bottom using "align center"command from the control bar. While there's nothing particularly wrong with that method, I think it may be the source of your trouble with the alignment changing unexpectedly.
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Dear Friend,
i have text Area Item for description .Here i want content alignment justify in that Text Area.
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Edited by: Vedant on Sep 16, 2011 4:32 AM

Hello,
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how do you create aligned interactive text boxs in a PDF with the same width and height?
Without free hand creating the sizing?

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You are welcome, darkorical.
Depending on the task/options, it may be worth looking at this thread,
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/756492?tstart=30
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http://www.illustrationetc.com/AI_Javascripts/TextScripts.htm

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What is iPages? Do you mean Pages? If so then ask this question in the Pages forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/iwork/pages
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