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I have unticked 'automatically create drawing canvas', but when I 'insert
text box' Word appears to change erratically between enabling me to draw a box and inserting a large box. I cannot find how to turn off putting in the large box. Any explanation/advice appreciated. I am using Word 2002. Thanks Dudley |
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Word inserts a text box if you click in the document. On the other hand, if
you drag (holding the left mouse button), you will be able to size the text box yourself. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote: I have unticked 'automatically create drawing canvas', but when I 'insert text box' Word appears to change erratically between enabling me to draw a box and inserting a large box. I cannot find how to turn off putting in the large box. Any explanation/advice appreciated. I am using Word 2002. Thanks Dudley |
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Thanks for your help, but the problem comes before I click in the document. Sometimes when I 'insert text box' I get a cross allowing me to draw a box, but at other times a large box is inserted and the cross has arrows on the end. This has only started happening recently, and possibly only when I insert a text box on top of a picture - perhaps something has gone wrong with my copy of Word? Dudley "Stefan Blom" wrote: Word inserts a text box if you click in the document. On the other hand, if you drag (holding the left mouse button), you will be able to size the text box yourself. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote: I have unticked 'automatically create drawing canvas', but when I 'insert text box' Word appears to change erratically between enabling me to draw a box and inserting a large box. I cannot find how to turn off putting in the large box. Any explanation/advice appreciated. I am using Word 2002. Thanks Dudley |
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I couldn't reproduce this in a quick test (using Word 2007).
Can you reproduce this in another document, or is it document-specific? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote in message ... Thanks for your help, but the problem comes before I click in the document. Sometimes when I 'insert text box' I get a cross allowing me to draw a box, but at other times a large box is inserted and the cross has arrows on the end. This has only started happening recently, and possibly only when I insert a text box on top of a picture - perhaps something has gone wrong with my copy of Word? Dudley "Stefan Blom" wrote: Word inserts a text box if you click in the document. On the other hand, if you drag (holding the left mouse button), you will be able to size the text box yourself. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote: I have unticked 'automatically create drawing canvas', but when I 'insert text box' Word appears to change erratically between enabling me to draw a box and inserting a large box. I cannot find how to turn off putting in the large box. Any explanation/advice appreciated. I am using Word 2002. Thanks Dudley |
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I just tried and I couldn't get the problem to come up at all, even though I
was getting it a couple of hours ago. It seems to be just erratic, though maybe only an erratic problem when I try to put a text box on top of an imported pdf in a document mail merging fields from Access. Thanks very much for the trouble you are taking. Regards Dudley "Stefan Blom" wrote: I couldn't reproduce this in a quick test (using Word 2007). Can you reproduce this in another document, or is it document-specific? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote in message ... Thanks for your help, but the problem comes before I click in the document. Sometimes when I 'insert text box' I get a cross allowing me to draw a box, but at other times a large box is inserted and the cross has arrows on the end. This has only started happening recently, and possibly only when I insert a text box on top of a picture - perhaps something has gone wrong with my copy of Word? Dudley "Stefan Blom" wrote: Word inserts a text box if you click in the document. On the other hand, if you drag (holding the left mouse button), you will be able to size the text box yourself. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote: I have unticked 'automatically create drawing canvas', but when I 'insert text box' Word appears to change erratically between enabling me to draw a box and inserting a large box. I cannot find how to turn off putting in the large box. Any explanation/advice appreciated. I am using Word 2002. Thanks Dudley |
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You may want to recreate the document, just in case. You could try copying
the contents (except for the final paragraph mark, ¶) into a new file. (To show/hide paragraph marks as well as other nonprinting marks, you can press Ctrl+Shift+8.) On the other hand, since this includes mail merge, perhaps you could get a more knowledgeable reply from the microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields group. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote in message ... I just tried and I couldn't get the problem to come up at all, even though I was getting it a couple of hours ago. It seems to be just erratic, though maybe only an erratic problem when I try to put a text box on top of an imported pdf in a document mail merging fields from Access. Thanks very much for the trouble you are taking. Regards Dudley "Stefan Blom" wrote: I couldn't reproduce this in a quick test (using Word 2007). Can you reproduce this in another document, or is it document-specific? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote in message ... Thanks for your help, but the problem comes before I click in the document. Sometimes when I 'insert text box' I get a cross allowing me to draw a box, but at other times a large box is inserted and the cross has arrows on the end. This has only started happening recently, and possibly only when I insert a text box on top of a picture - perhaps something has gone wrong with my copy of Word? Dudley "Stefan Blom" wrote: Word inserts a text box if you click in the document. On the other hand, if you drag (holding the left mouse button), you will be able to size the text box yourself. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote: I have unticked 'automatically create drawing canvas', but when I 'insert text box' Word appears to change erratically between enabling me to draw a box and inserting a large box. I cannot find how to turn off putting in the large box. Any explanation/advice appreciated. I am using Word 2002. Thanks Dudley |
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Many thanks for your help. I will follow up your suggestions.
Dudley "Stefan Blom" wrote: You may want to recreate the document, just in case. You could try copying the contents (except for the final paragraph mark, ¶) into a new file. (To show/hide paragraph marks as well as other nonprinting marks, you can press Ctrl+Shift+8.) On the other hand, since this includes mail merge, perhaps you could get a more knowledgeable reply from the microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields group. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote in message ... I just tried and I couldn't get the problem to come up at all, even though I was getting it a couple of hours ago. It seems to be just erratic, though maybe only an erratic problem when I try to put a text box on top of an imported pdf in a document mail merging fields from Access. Thanks very much for the trouble you are taking. Regards Dudley "Stefan Blom" wrote: I couldn't reproduce this in a quick test (using Word 2007). Can you reproduce this in another document, or is it document-specific? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote in message ... Thanks for your help, but the problem comes before I click in the document. Sometimes when I 'insert text box' I get a cross allowing me to draw a box, but at other times a large box is inserted and the cross has arrows on the end. This has only started happening recently, and possibly only when I insert a text box on top of a picture - perhaps something has gone wrong with my copy of Word? Dudley "Stefan Blom" wrote: Word inserts a text box if you click in the document. On the other hand, if you drag (holding the left mouse button), you will be able to size the text box yourself. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dudley" wrote: I have unticked 'automatically create drawing canvas', but when I 'insert text box' Word appears to change erratically between enabling me to draw a box and inserting a large box. I cannot find how to turn off putting in the large box. Any explanation/advice appreciated. I am using Word 2002. Thanks Dudley |
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:22:00 -0700, Dudley
wrote: Thanks for your help, but the problem comes before I click in the document. Sometimes when I 'insert text box' I get a cross allowing me to draw a box, but at other times a large box is inserted and the cross has arrows on the end. This can happen if something in the document is selected when you insert the text box. -- Fredrik E. Nilsen http://fenilsen.wordpress.com |
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Thanks very much. I will try to 'un-select' next time I have the problem.
Dudley "Fredrik E. Nilsen" wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:22:00 -0700, Dudley wrote: Thanks for your help, but the problem comes before I click in the document. Sometimes when I 'insert text box' I get a cross allowing me to draw a box, but at other times a large box is inserted and the cross has arrows on the end. This can happen if something in the document is selected when you insert the text box. -- Fredrik E. Nilsen http://fenilsen.wordpress.com |
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Are you saying that it happens even if the selection is a picture (I know
that it happens with selected text)? Which version of Word? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Fredrik E. Nilsen" wrote in message news On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:22:00 -0700, Dudley wrote: Thanks for your help, but the problem comes before I click in the document. Sometimes when I 'insert text box' I get a cross allowing me to draw a box, but at other times a large box is inserted and the cross has arrows on the end. This can happen if something in the document is selected when you insert the text box. -- Fredrik E. Nilsen http://fenilsen.wordpress.com |
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:34:10 +0200, "Stefan Blom"
wrote: Are you saying that it happens even if the selection is a picture (I know that it happens with selected text)? Which version of Word? It happens if the selection is a picture in version 2003 and older. -- Fredrik E. Nilsen http://fenilsen.wordpress.com |
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I have to admit I have never noticed this. Thank you for the information.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Fredrik E. Nilsen" wrote in message ... On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:34:10 +0200, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you saying that it happens even if the selection is a picture (I know that it happens with selected text)? Which version of Word? It happens if the selection is a picture in version 2003 and older. -- Fredrik E. Nilsen http://fenilsen.wordpress.com |
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