why text in one textbox appears in another textbox?

[Ali]

Hello everybody,
I am usign MSWord2003SP2. Form "Insert">"New drawing" i open a drawing field
to put figures and textbox. but, today when i put the third textbox i
realized that everything in the third textbox has been copied in the second
textbox. there is a direct link between second and third, and when i type in
the second simultanously is typed in the third. i am wondering how that could
happn. this problem appeared after i tryed to make another textbox using copy
and past. now i can not make the third textbox even after removing the old
one, or even restarting the computer.
any idea is very appreciated.

thanks,
Ali

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QWxp?=,

I am usign MSWord2003SP2. Form "Insert">"New drawing" i open a drawing field
to put figures and textbox. but, today when i put the third textbox i
realized that everything in the third textbox has been copied in the second
textbox. there is a direct link between second and third, and when i type in
the second simultanously is typed in the third. i am wondering how that could
happn. this problem appeared after i tryed to make another textbox using copy
and past. now i can not make the third textbox even after removing the old
one, or even restarting the computer.

The file structure in this document has become "garbeled". This is definitely a
problem with text boxes in Word 2003 (and sometimes in earlier versions, as
well) as soon as you copy/paste textboxes.

You can try saving as XML, closing and re-opening. Or try copying everything
except the last paragraph mark into a new document.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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