Thank you for your reply. I am trying to move text within the document
itself and within areas where there is already text.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Are you trying to drag text to an area outside the margins or an area of the
document where there is not yet any text?

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"wlmiv" wrote in message
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My system uses MS Office Word 2003. I am editing documents previously set
up
by someone else. I can't get drag-and-drop editing to turn on, even
though I
followed the "Help" instructions as follows: "1. On the Tools menu, click
Options, and then click the Edit tab. 2. Select ... the Drag-and-drop
text
editing check box." When I select some text and try to drag it, I get a
circle icon with a line thru it (meaning that the action is not allowed).
I
hate having to use cut and paste when drag and drop is so much easier.
Thanks for any ideas.