Wonky text box problem

[Amy Blankenship]

I am trying to do lots of flow charts in a word document. I've been copying
and pasting objects of various shapes with text in them to get new objects
with the same formatting properties (setting autoshape defaults does not
seem to set text size and alignment). Now I've got a problem where when I
create new shapes, whether from copying or pasting or from creating a
totally new shape, the shape seems to consider its text identical to the
text in some random earlier text box, so it will autofill with the text from
that box and any attempt to remove the unwanted text from the new box will
also remove the text from the old box. The new box and the old box do not
have to be the same shape, and in fact seldom are.

Anyone seen this before and have a workaround?

Thanks;

Amy

 

[Anne Troy]

Amy: Perhaps my tips for working with drawing objects will help you
considerably. Seems like it.
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/drawing_tools_in_microsoft_office.htm
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Amy Blankenship]

Doesn't seem to have much to do with the problem I'm experiencing, except if
I work in another document (PowerPoint or Word or whatever), it obviously
can't link to a text box in THIS document).

BTW, I *am* a real graphic designer, among other things.

Thanks;

Amy

 

[Anne Troy]

Sorry...Unfortunately, having lots of drawing objects ... well it just seems
to start to disintegrate the document and its contents. I see this "linking"
as being disintegration...
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Amy Blankenship]

I've had lots more before without ever seeing this problem. However,
constructing each flow chart in a new doc seems to at least help. I have to
check the existing flow charts after each paste and see if they need repair,
but that's usually minor.

Thanks;

Amy