Place the cursor in the text box, then paste. If you simply paste a new text box
is created.

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> Working in v.2003 when I cut a phrase or sentence from another doc either
> word or a web page, many times when I paste it comes with the text boxes.
> How do cut and paste without these boxes being transfered to the publisher
> doc?