FWIW, you can add a border to the text inside the cell instead of to the
cell.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"MikeB" wrote in message
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On Oct 29, 9:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
My question: Why did you put text boxes in the table in the first place?
As for your questions:
1. Replace should work if you use Replace All. Word won't find text in
text
boxes until after it has searched the main document, but it will find it.
2. If you bookmark the text in one place, you can use a REF field to
repeat
it elsewhere, but a REF field may not be able to "see" text in a text box.
Which brings us back to: Why are you using text boxes instead of just the
table cells?
Well, I needed little dark edges around the words, but not on the edge
of the cells. So I made the text box with a border and then made the
cells borders invisible.
I guess there might have been other ways.
While waiting for an answer, I went a different route and made a table
with some cells blank. I made the blank cells narrow or thin,
depending on whether they were beside or above/below a cell with text
in it. so the cell (or box) with text in it is surrounded by blank
cells. Seems to work fine. Probably more flexible than the first
attempt.
Thanks for your help.
M