New Text Boxes Are Self Typing Same Contents in a Previous Text B.

[Ian Dean]

After importing text boxes from an Excel file to use as lables pointing to
references on a map, all being produced in a WORD Doc; any new text boxes
created anywhere in the Word document are somehow linked. What I type in the
latter appears in the former. Eg what i type in new text box numer 2 also
appears in new text box number one, no matter where they are in the document.
The facility 'Linked Text Boxes' has not been activated & therefore the
'Unlink option is not available'
Please advise on how to create new text boxes independently

 

[Bob S]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 04:47:02 -0800, "Ian Dean" <Ian

After importing text boxes from an Excel file to use as lables pointing to
references on a map, all being produced in a WORD Doc; any new text boxes
created anywhere in the Word document are somehow linked. What I type in the
latter appears in the former. Eg what i type in new text box numer 2 also
appears in new text box number one, no matter where they are in the document.
The facility 'Linked Text Boxes' has not been activated & therefore the
'Unlink option is not available'
Please advise on how to create new text boxes independently

There is a seldom-seen form of document corruption that causes a
strange form of text box "linkage". Text entered in one box will be
duplicated in another box. You may even get two cursors at once.
Follow the procedures for dealing with corrupt documents.

Bob S

 

[Ian Dean]

Hey there Bob,

Thanks for your reply.

I shall try this out the next time it happens again.

Due to time constraints for the report, I ended up starting from scratch &
doing a step by step import & save under different names until it went mad
again & then dropped back a file. Managed to save reproduction of 80% of the
work.