autoshape text won't unlink and other weird stuff

[Merlin]

Something really weird is happening here. I have worked
a lot with Word, but this is my first attempt at creating
flowcharts. Everything was going fine as I created (and
copied) some autoshapes (Flowchart: Alternate Process)
and some connectors. But when I went back later and
tried to copy or create new boxes, the text from an
existing box seemed to be linked, even though I don't
remember linking any text. Help says to click on the box
and choose "break forward link", but that option isn't
available, it always says "Create Text Box Link". Some
other boxes seem to be mysteriously linked as well. When
I delete the new box, the previous "linked" box is no
longer selectable or editable, and I'm prevented from
entering new text into it. What's going on here? I
tried 'detect and repair', but it didn't change
anything. I'm completely prevented from going further on
this job until this is fixed.

Please help.

Merlin

 

[Guest]

I started a new document from scratch and have had no
problems since. Obviously something was going wrong.

 

[Wayne]

I am having a similiar problem. I see that you never did find a way to
resolve the problem. I don't want to start the project over again. Is there
no hope?????