How do I stop text in text boxes affecting text in other text box

[Historical Ruth]

I create family trees using text boxes in Word. I have a text box on page 1
which seems to be connected mysteriously to a text box on page 15. Whatever
I type in either one comes up in the other. Are they linked? How? Can I stop
it?

 

[macropod]

Hi Historical Ruth,

From the Word Help file-

.. Switch to print layout view.

.. Select the text box that you want the text to stop flowing from. To do
this, move the pointer over the border of the object until the pointer
becomes a four-headed arrow, and then click the border.

.. On the Text Box toolbar, click Break Forward Link

Cheers