new text boxes added other text boxes 'blink' can't select new

  • Thread starter Bill in the dessert
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Bill in the dessert

MS Word 2007, XP
Making a work instruction procedure.
Inserted, cropped, and aligned pictures.
Now adding text boxes:
Inserted first Text Box, formatted, and aligned.
When additional (and subsequent) text boxes are inserted, the first or
previous text block starts 'blinking'. Both the new text box and the
previous show as being selected (i.e. blue outline around the both boxes are
active). But the previous text box outline is 'blinking'. Under Text Box
Tools Format tab, Size selection boxes are blinking as well as Create Link
under Text (Break Link can not be selected). I can scroll down to the next
box, but when I stop scrolling, it 'jumps back' to the blinking box.
Clicking in the document 'turns off' both the blinking box and the new box.
Then when I try to select the new box, it starts all over again and 'jumps
back' to the previous blinking box. Driving me crazy!!
 

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