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Text Boxes Problem

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Martha Bowes - 05 Aug 2003 16:44 GMT
Here's a problem I can't resolve in the Mac Word newsgroup. I'm afraid
there's no solution. Am I wrong?

It has to do with a long document with many text boxes, some of which begin
part way down one page and then continue to the next page. So far, if I
don't link it to a new text box on the second page, the text box will just
chop off at the bottom of the page it begins on.. I don't want to have to
create and link text boxes from the bottom of one page to the top of the
next, because as the pagination changes I will always have to recheck and
adjust these in the event the text box later fits onto one page, but in two
different boxes. Big pain. Is there an alternative? I cannot use columns in
this document.

Martha

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Jay Freedman - 05 Aug 2003 17:11 GMT
Hi, Martha,

Because Word (Mac or Windows) considers text boxes to be drawing objects,
they cannot extend past the end of a page. The same is true of "floating"
tables in Word 2000 and later. Could you use a regular (not floating) table
instead of a text box or columns? If not, you're stuck... sorry.

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Jay Freedman
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> Here's a problem I can't resolve in the Mac Word newsgroup. I'm afraid
> there's no solution. Am I wrong?
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> Martha
 
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