RE Text to flow around shape

In Pages 08 or 09 - Is it possible to get text to flow or follow around e.g. a sircle or anoter shape?
What I am thinking of here, is something simular to word-art in MS word.
You got some bad advice and accepted it and closed the topic.
It's absolutely possible to have text flow around a shape. In word processing mode, highlight/select the shape/image, click the Inspector>Wrap. Set Wrap=yes. You can define how the text wraps around the shape, above-below only, surround, etc.. you can even define how closely the text wraps to the shape.
Wait a little bit the next time you ask a question. The first person responding may not have the answer.

Nope, wasn't rhetorical at all, Just wonder why it still has to be so hard to find. I did finally figure out that if I copied the pic into the Pages doc. from I-Photo via the Media Icon/tool, the text began to wrap. I was frustrated before while trying to finalize a bio before my partner left so she could take it by a gallery displaying her work for an upcoming show. I remember wishing for this capablilty in the late 1980's and was really frustrated because in MS Word 2008 for Mac I couldn't find any possibilty of Word or Text Wrapping and within Pages 2011, I could not get the necessary menu to highlight and therefore work. If Mac just used the right mouse button and allowed icons, etc. to show up when moused over and help links to pop up when right clicked on, it would save soo much time.
Thanks for your post, it eventually helped me.
Dave

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Corne ~ Welcome to the discussions. See this Help page:
http://help.apple.com/iwork/1.3/safari/index.html#tan72488c93
...If following the instructions there for "+Wrap text around an object"+ doesn't do it, it implies that you'll have to cut around the image first. And this phrase there, seems to suggest that you'll have to cut around first:
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And there's more online support for iPad's Pages app here:
http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/pages

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I often send group emails to let friends know about our upcoming band gigs. I use a nice header image, and sometimes have images in the text.
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To create a ring of type as seen in Fig. 6:
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Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 07:53:12 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How do I get the text to flow throughout more then one page.
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[Forum FAQ] How to find and replace text strings in the shapes in Excel using Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is a powerful command tool and we can use it for management and operations. In this article we introduce the detailed steps to use Windows PowerShell to find and replace test string in the
shapes in Excel Object.
Since the Excel.Application
is available for representing the entire Microsoft Excel application, we can invoke the relevant Properties and Methods to help us to
interact with Excel document.
The figure below is an excel file:
Figure 1.
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Figure 2.
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