Re: Text Box disables cursor

There is a Word command "Remove Frames" that does just what it says and leaves the text, though I am not sure exactly will happen to the text when it is in the margin. My guess is that executing the Remove Frames command will leave the text in the body adjacent to the Frame location at the closest paragraph break. That should let you insert a Text Box and Cut & Paste the text into the Text Box floating in the margin.

Terry Farrell

"Marvin42" <Marvin42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:55F77E44-DF66-4660-AFA0-89C3B5663CC8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Open and Repair" appears not to see anything wrong.

I still don't understand why I had a mystery document that should have been
broken, but where everything worked.

However, in the aggegate, here's what I seem to be observing. If I try to
alter a document that used frames for scholars margins to using text boxes,
then I just about always end up with the "cursor doesn't work in a text box
problem" after I've inserted a half-dozen boxes. This *includes* cases where
I copy and paste "unformatted text" from a frame-based document into a
text-box-based template.

On the other hand, if I copy text from a frames-based document into Notepad,
then copy the plain text from Notepad into my new text-box-based Word
template, then I don't seem to have the textbox-vs-cursor bug. Getting the
frames completely out of the picture before I start using text boxes seems to
be a key step. (Maybe I can find a more efficient way of doing that.)

--
Marvin Long, Jr.


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