I'm having a problem with text box

[WizEd]

In Word 2003 after placing a certain number of text boxes, I place a new text
box but it seems to be linked to a previously created text box. When I place
the new text box sometimes it displays the characters of another text box.
If I click on the new text box the cursor jumps to the text of previous text
box. I have been struggling for hours, creating, recreating, the same
complex picture thinking I was doing something wrong. But each time after so
long it keep reoccuring.

 

[Jezebel]

Type 'Textbox' into Word Help. Read the topic 'Break a text box link'.

 

[WizEd]

Jezebel,

I did not establish any links but have already tries that. I noticed on the
Text Box toolbar the chain link symbol and the flyover text said link so I
thought I had accidently linked. I tried unlink but still was unsuccessful.
The placement of new text boxes caused unwanted text and the curor would jump
around the page.

Whats peculiar is I tried it in an existing document, things went haywire.
I then was recreating it in a new document and again after a while things
went haywire again.

Is there a limit on number of text boxes?

 

[Jezebel]

The number of text boxes is unlikely to be the problem. There is an upper
limit; but performance become unacceptable long before Word actually falls
over. I know from experience that a page can have 10,000 textboxes on it;
and the same experiment shows that a page with 10,000 textboxes on it is
unusable (as in *minutes* per keystroke).

If text entered in one textbox is appearing in another, then those text
boxes *are* linked. By definition. Presumably created inadvertently in your
case.

Is the cursor jumping around from textbox to textbox, or jumping around the
page outside the textboxes? -- the latter can be caused by the 'overlap'
setting on the format dialog (under the advanced settings).

 

[WizEd]

Remember, I am creating a new text box yet it displays the text of another
text box. Also the cursor is jumping from this text box to another text box.
And its a newly created text box. There does not appear to be any pattern
to the relationship between text boxes.

 

[Carol]

How was this resolved? I am having the same problem and I did not link the
boxes.