Text box overflow

[AustinPAWS]

When you insert more text than a text box is able to accommodate, Publisher
gives you a warning bell and the "A"--Autoflow warning. HOWEVER, after you
have finished working on a text box--and say that there are two text boxes
bumping up against one another--a slight shift in any spacing on the page can
cause one of the text boxes to "slip" behind the other--thus losing one or
more lines of visible text on the document page--there is no warning when
this happens--and unless you actually click on the text box, the "A" doesn't
show to alert you. Is there any way to protect that from happening?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Select the text box, right-click, format text box, layout, select "none."

 

[AustinPAWS]

Mary--this didn't do anything--some process--if I'm clicking on and working
iN the text box, I get the Autoflow note that it's time to adjust the size;
however, when I'm done working in it, it can accidently shift later and there
is no notice that the full contents of the box are no longer visible.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You are not going to see the overflow icon if the text box is not selected.

You might want to do a detect and repair, it sounds like you have some
corruption somewhere. Do you have the Office service packs installed?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

You should be using Design Checker before printing. It won't prevent you
from doing that but it will alert you to the fact that it happened.