frames insert thousands of blank pages

[Minerva]

Having terrible trouble with inserted text boxes.

When I insert 2 text boxes on adjacent pages word (word 2002 10.2627.2625)
inserts over 10 000 blank pages (i stoped it from repagenting at 10k). I get
this error even when the text boxes are completely empty.

If the text boxes are separated by more than one page, no problem, if they
are not, sometimes word inserts thousands of blank pages.

Tried many of the text box options with no joy.

Word is doing this on its own, there is no VBA modules etc in this document.

If i convert the text boxes to frames, its seem to be a reasoanble work
around. (took me hours to figure that out of course) However this seems a
scrappy workaround for commercial software, does anyone know what the problem
is here?

My guess is word is trying to put both text boxes on the same page (in some
fashion), but they wont fit, and so it keep increasing the page number in the
hope of finding a page they will fit on..... Im guessing 64k pages are added,
but i could be bother to wait that long.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have anchored the two text boxes to the same paragraph and they won't
both fit on the same page, then Word will keep trying to put them on
different pages, but it can't because they have to be on the same page as
the paragraph they're anchored to. Make sure that each text box is anchored
to a separate paragraph (even if it's an empty one), and you shouldn't have
this problem.