Text box visible only in "Reading layout"

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PerStromgren - 21 May 2007 14:16 GMT

I have a strange document where a specific text box only shows in Reading
layout, not in print layout. I have tried to remove one thing after another,
but can't get to this text box. I can, however, delete text in the text box
when it is visible using Reading layout.

Tools->Options->Print has everything checked under "Include with document".

Tools->Word Count does not see the text in the text box.

Could this be a case of hidden text?

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Stefan Blom - 21 May 2007 15:19 GMT

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/InvisibleGraphics.htm.

Note that, as far as I know, text in text boxes is never included in a
word count.

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> I have a strange document where a specific text box only shows in Reading
> layout, not in print layout. I have tried to remove one thing after another,
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> Could this be a case of hidden text?

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PerStromgren - 21 May 2007 15:50 GMT

> See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/InvisibleGraphics.htm.

Thanks's Stefan, but none of the solutions helps me in this case, I have
already tried them. The tip about "Graphics pasted from the Web into Word
2000" may (but probably not) be suitable, but there does not seem to a cure
when this has already happened.

Anything else I should try?

> Note that, as far as I know, text in text boxes is never included in a
> word count.

Of course, that seem obvious now that I know a lot more about text boxes.

Per.

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PerStromgren - 21 May 2007 16:01 GMT

I solved it!

I found my text box when I desperately tried evereything, including the "Web
layout" mode. There I could see the text box floating at the extreme right,
outside my page boundaries, and I could grab it and pull it back onto the
page.

No, I don't know why it ended up out there. Strange.

Per.

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Stefan Blom - 22 May 2007 08:06 GMT

Indeed, this is strange. I'd treat the document as corrupt. Copy its
contents, minus any section breaks, minus the final paragraph into a new
file as explained at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm.

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> I solved it!
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> Per.

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Jeannine - 21 May 2007 23:20 GMT

I just had exactly the same problem this morning. I FINALLY!!!! copied the
entire document and cut and pasted it back in. When I did this, the text
box text showed up and I was able to delete it. Maybe this will work for
you. It was so very, very strange, because when I ran the spell check, I
could see it was spelling text that didn't exist in my document. Then I
discovered it was also spelling what was in the text box.

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Stefan Blom - 22 May 2007 08:18 GMT

Cutting and pasting apparently fixed the document corruption causing the
problem. For more on corrupt documents, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm.

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Stefan Blom
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> I just had exactly the same problem this morning. I FINALLY!!!! copied the
> entire document and cut and pasted it back in. When I did this, the text
> box text showed up and I was able to delete it. Maybe this will work for
> you. It was so very, very strange, because when I ran the spell check, I
> could see it was spelling text that didn't exist in my document. Then I
> discovered it was also spelling what was in the text box.

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