void = MoveBoxHor(nFixedUnits)

This macro function moves a textbox horizontally by nFixedUnits.

It is a simultaneous call to MoveBoxLeft and MoveBoxRight ensuring that the width of the box remains the same all through the resizing and avoid potential occurrences of message 181650.

➢Looking at the measurements palette of QuarkXPress and InDesign, as shown in the image on the right, the effect of this function is to change the value of X by nFixedUnits.

➢Textbox resizing functions only work on textboxes whose angle is a multiple of 90 degrees (0­°, 90°, 180°, or 270°) and we strongly encourage you to always use non-rotated textboxes (with an angle of 0°) for any macro which contains the above macro function, as explained in the gridtemplate construction guidelines.

➢A fixed unit is the smallest unit of size, used by both QuarkXPress and InDesign, and is defined as 1/65536 of a point. This means that an inch is 4718592 fixed units, and a millimeter is approximately 185771 fixed units.

This function moves the textbox but has no effect on its size.

See also: textbox resizing macro functions.

Topic 181655, last updated on 25-Jan-2021