[Cindy M.]

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I take it this is a fairly recent version of Word? 2003, perhaps?

There's a basic problem in Word 2003 with text boxes that occurs most often
when a text box is copied and re-used. Something seems to be broken in how Word
manages these in the binary file format in the background.

Since a text box is an AutoShape, and the same principle is used in AutoShapes
for their text, I'm guessing it's basically the same problem, which can be
summarized as "document corruption".

Best way to prevent it is to never copy and re-use anything created with a
drawing tool.

Question: Is it possible to link text between two autoshapes?

Background: Document has two autoshapes. When you highlight the text in
one of the shapes the text in the other shape is also highlighting. These
are autoshapes - not text boxes.

Also, when you print the doc - neither shapes text prints (does show up on
screen and in print preview).

And finally, if you delete one of the shapes it removes the text from the
other shape but when you try to save it generates an error and kicks you out
of Word.

I fixed the crashing by copy the existing text to a new document (and it did
NOT copy the text in those two shapes) and then I could delete one shape and
save.

I figured out how to fix the problem but just wondering how it happened in
the first place.


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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