Lose text in boxes in Preview & PDF - How come?

[cwright003]

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I have drawing boxes surrounding text in certain areas of a Word X document. When I go to Preview or try to make a PDF file, I lose all of the text in that box -- it does not show up.

When I delete the rectangle box surrounding the text, then the text does show up in Preview and a PDF file.

This was not happening before. It just started. Did I inadvertently check a box in Preferences that is preventing the text from showing up? How do I get the text back in Preview?

Under Word > Preferences > Print, I have a check with Drawing Objects. And under > View, I have a check with Drawing, Text Boundaries, and Object Anchors. There is no check with Image Placeholders.

I appreciate any advice.

 

[John McGhie]

{Sigh} This is a long-standing bug in V.X.

Make sure you have all of the updaters applied, all the way up to 10.1.9.

Here is the URL, but be careful of it, it's all one line, you will need to
paste it into your browser:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=47&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&Src
CategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=148e9283-4df8-4a75-9671-cc72e6306b84&u=details.aspx%
3ffamilyid%3dFEA9FD8A-EA16-4B3C-9381-18A389D5599A%26displaylang%3den

There is a fix for that in one of those updaters, but it doesn't always
work.

What has happened is that you have not drawn a "Box" around the text, you
have pasted a "Square" over the top of the text. Even though you cannot see
the fill in the middle, it's there and it's blocking the text.

Try selecting the square and sending it to the back. Or: Selecting the
square and specifying "No Fill". Or: Get rid of the square, select all the
paragraphs and choose Format>Borders and Shading... And apply a border that
way. Note: the last way will not work properly if you have blank paragraphs
between the text paragraphs.

Hope this helps

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I have drawing boxes surrounding text in certain areas of a Word X document.
When I go to Preview or try to make a PDF file, I lose all of the text in that
box -- it does not show up.

When I delete the rectangle box surrounding the text, then the text does show
up in Preview and a PDF file.

This was not happening before. It just started. Did I inadvertently check a
box in Preferences that is preventing the text from showing up? How do I get
the text back in Preview?

Under Word > Preferences > Print, I have a check with Drawing Objects. And
under > View, I have a check with Drawing, Text Boundaries, and Object
Anchors. There is no check with Image Placeholders.

I appreciate any advice.

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