Linking text boxes crashes Word 2008

[Tom_R._in_OK]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I am creating a long document in Word 2008 which contains several text boxes linked together to "flow" a "story". After linking about 4 text boxes together, I tried to click the square at the bottom right of the last text box in order to create a new, linked text box. When I clicked it, it crashed Word. Opening the file and proceeding the same way has yielded the same results, every time, for about 5 tries in a row.

Any suggestions on how to rescue my current document, and on how to avoid the problem in the future, would be appreciated.

- Tom R.

(Running an intel iMac with OS X 10.5, and Word 2008).

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Well, I just inserted several linked text boxes, so it's not an inherent
glitch (unless it's a Leopard bug, I'm in Tiger).

I'd guess corrupt document and send you here to try those fixes:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html

If you describe your doc a little bit and your desired end result, maybe
there is another way to get there besides linked text boxes.

 

[Tom_R._in_OK]

Thank you for the reply and the link.

I wound up opening the document, copying all, and then pasting into a new document. This solved the problem I described above where tying to link to a new text box crashed the program.

Working with text boxes still seemed pretty frustrating. They slowed my mac way down (i'm running one of the aluminum iMacs), and behavior was still just kind of weird.

I am writing an update to an old legal opinion, and need to include the text from the old opinion in my new opinion. In order to differentiate the old from the new, I was going to put the old text in text boxes (in a different font). I was trying to get a drop-shadow on the text boxes, but using that option also blurred the text within the text boxes. After messing around with the blur slider and other text box options, I decided to just define a new paragraph style. Now I've ditched the text boxes, and achieved everything except for getting a drop shadow.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Tom:

Yes, that's what I would have done, too.

Text boxes are pretty flaky and have some nasty side-effects.

Cheers

Thank you for the reply and the link.

I wound up opening the document, copying all, and then pasting into a new
document. This solved the problem I described above where tying to link to a
new text box crashed the program.

Working with text boxes still seemed pretty frustrating. They slowed my mac
way down (i'm running one of the aluminum iMacs), and behavior was still just
kind of weird.

I am writing an update to an old legal opinion, and need to include the text
from the old opinion in my new opinion. In order to differentiate the old from
the new, I was going to put the old text in text boxes (in a different font).
I was trying to get a drop-shadow on the text boxes, but using that option
also blurred the text within the text boxes. After messing around with the
blur slider and other text box options, I decided to just define a new
paragraph style. Now I've ditched the text boxes, and achieved everything
except for getting a drop shadow.

Thanks,

Tom

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