Diconnext text boxes in document

[Terry Wardrop]

We have some documents made in Publisher around 15 pages
long with the text autoflowing from one page to the next.
We would like to separate these into separate text boxes
on each page. The problem is when we turn the connect
feature off, we lose all text on all pages after that.
How can we turn off that feature and make each page its
own text box, without losing anything??

Has anyone else run into this? and what are we doing
wrong?

 

[Mary Sauer]

You aren't losing the text, if you re-size the first text box you will see all the
text is there only now it is trying to be on one page. You can have many instances of
Publisher open at any one time, create a new publication and copy and paste the text.

 

[Erika]

We have some documents made in Publisher around 15 pages

long with the text autoflowing from one page to the next.
We would like to separate these into separate text boxes
on each page. The problem is when we turn the connect
feature off, we lose all text on all pages after that.
How can we turn off that feature and make each page its
own text box, without losing anything??

Has anyone else run into this? and what are we doing
wrong?

What Mary said.

But i can't stop from commenting. The autoflow is one of the 2 main
reasons i bought Publisher. I was tired of resizing text boxes every
time i made any edits in the text and had to make each box a little
bigger, a little smaller, and fit it all together.

If you're working on one article autoflow is the best and most
professional way to handle it.

 

[Morisot]

Also,
Control + Enter
acts almost like a forced page break.

Be sure to do this on a copy! of your file. And you
probably want it to be the very last thing you do. At the
bottom of each of your 15 pages (in the text box) use
<Control + Enter>. Once you apply the forced breaks, you
basically cannot remove them.

(Experiment with it.)

M.

 

[Ron Cohen]

It's no problem to remove the page breaks. Make sure special characters are
shown - Ctrl+shift+Y - . You can easily see the page break symbol which
can be deleted just as any other special character.