Word Text box resize causes other boxes to disappear

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churchlady

I create a newsletter with text boxes in Word, been doing it this way for
years, suddenly this weird quirk has developed. I just try to move a box a
little bit left or right, or resize it a little bit, and neighboring boxes
just bounce into nowhere. I have to undo to get them back. This is making
the document unworkable. Ideas anyone?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

In Format | Text Box | Layout | Advanced, check the "Distance from text"
(Wrapping tab). Also, the "Allow overlap" check box (Picture Position tab)
may be important.
 
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churchlady

Thank you for telling me about the options under the Advanced button in
layout. Allow overlapping was checked. Distance from text was 0 for top and
botton and 0.13 for left and right. I tried fiddling with the numbers but
could not solve the problem: when I changed the text box (2nd column on page
5) the two columns on page 6 still vanish.

Could you please tell me what the ideal other settings are for a page with
two columns created by side by side text boxes? (Which Wrapping style,
absolute position, etc.) Thanks.

Robin Morris
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

I rarely use text boxes at all, so I'm afraid I can't be much help. I
usually just use newspaper-style columns instead. You might try using
newspaper-style columns and then anchoring a text box to a text paragraph in
each column.
 
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churchlady

I figured out the problem! The boxes that were bouncing off into the ozone
were set at layout "in front of text" instead of "square." When I switched
it, they stopped disappearing. Phew. (It would have been a pain to reformat
everything into columns.)
 
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