Publisher 2003 - Link Text Boxes After-The-Fact

[TomWilliams]

I have an 85-page document in MS Pub 2003. Each page is a separate text box.
Upon reviewing the 85 pages, I found that there is a broken link between two
of the boxes, causing a huge blank space to appear when I print the entire
document. Is there a way I can repair this chain by re-establishing a link
between the two unlinked text boxes?

 

[Mary Sauer]

All the text will have remained in the first box, if the link has failed you can
re-link to the second box. If for some reason you cannot re-link, delete the
second box, create a new text box and link.

 

[TomWilliams]

Thanks for the reply. I guess I misstated my problem. The broken link is
between pages 10 and 11. Both 10 and 11 each contain text, but the link
between them may have never existed due to my error. Now, I wish to
establish the link between 10 and 11, since the text of these 85 pages is
being changed almost every day by added text and photos. Your statement
about "re-linking" does not seem to work, probably because the link never
existed in the first place. Is there any way at all for me to link pages 10
and 11 at this late stage? Thanks.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can only link a text box if the second text box is empty. You can pull page
11 off to the scratch area, create a new text box on page 11, link page 10 to
the new 11. Copy the text from the scratch area, paste it to the end of page 10,
the text will flow into the new page 11.

 

[TomWilliams]

Your solution for creating a link between pages 10 and 11 via the scratch
area seems to work, but due to my imprecise statement of the problem, I still
haven't been able to accomplish a complete chain extending from page 1 all
the way through to page 85, inclusive. There is now no link between pages 11
and 12. I'm beginning to get the idea that what I want to do is not
possible. It appears that once the chain is broken at any point between
these two extremes (1-85), it is not within the scope of Publisher 2003 to
make the chain "whole." Sorry to have taken up so much of your time with
this, but I hoped to find a solution to this problem. Does Publisher 2007
have any increased capabilities in this area?
Tom W.