Re: Text Box disables cursor

At the point when you can no longer paste into the Text Box, what happens if you manually insert a new Text Box?

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Marvin42" <Marvin42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:91DD0D32-008D-4988-B2F6-FB2EA301D7A3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In brief: Sometimes after inserting a text box, the mouse cursor ceases to
behave within the new text box.

At length: As I wrote back in January, the association I work for uses many
thousands of documents that use frames to create scholar's margins as
headings. In Word 2003 the frames worked beautifully, but in Word 2007 the
frames' "keep with next" function frequently fails at page breaks, causing
marginal headings to be orphaned from the paragraphs to which they're
attached.

So I'm investigating replacing frames with text boxes. As a first step I'm
simply modifying existing documents by removing frames from the paragraph
styles that use them, and then manually inserting text boxes as a
replacement. For this purpose I created a text box QuickPart that duplicates
the positioning of the old frames. I use the QuickPart by putting my cursor
in a paragraph, inserting the text box, and bingo: I have a box right where
I need it to be. (So far so good.)

Then I paste the old scholar's margin text (including the paragraph marker,
which may contain some extra spacing in the left margin or lower margin) into
the text box. So the overall procedure is: create text box; cut marginal
text; paste marginal text into text box; repeat.

The problem occurs after I've repeated the procedure five or six times.
I'll create a text box, cut the marginal text, and then attempt to paste it
into the text box, but I can't. No matter where I place the cursor in the
text box, it refuses to change from the "cross" used to position graphics
into the "I-beam" used to insert text. I can still get the right cursor when
working in the text boxes I created previously; but from now on in this
document I cannot get a proper text cursor in any new text box.

All is not lost: I can still right-click the text box and select "Edit
text." That allows me to type in the text box (but I have to use arrow keys
since the cursor is still broken). And I can close and re-open the document
to get normal cursor behavior back -- but the fix in this case only lasts for
another five or six text boxes.

It's a bit maddening -- like having the Heading 1 style suddenly up and quit
on you for no good reason. Has anybody else seen this behavior?

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Marvin Long, Jr.

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