text box bug still present in word 2002

[pj lightning]

How disappointing, I finally get a newer version of word
and I find that the text box bug that was so annoying in
word 97 is still present in 2002. I'll be working on
editing the inserted picture, everything fine, and then I
put in a new text box and realise that it has magically
acquired the same text as another text box, any attempt to
edit it edits both and usually, unless I can delete both
very quickly, Word crashes. Does anyone know a cure for
this?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi P.J.,

Is this a document that was created in a previous version
or that has a lot of Objects in it? If so, the document
may have become corrupted and you can get the behavior you see.

Sometimes saving it as a web document or as an RTF file,
closing Word and reopening, after deleting all files found
through Start->Search with *.tmp;~$*.*
then restarting Word will help.

Be sure you're not using 'Allow Fast Saves' in Tools=>Options=>Save

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How disappointing, I finally get a newer version of word
and I find that the text box bug that was so annoying in
word 97 is still present in 2002. I'll be working on
editing the inserted picture, everything fine, and then I
put in a new text box and realise that it has magically
acquired the same text as another text box, any attempt to
edit it edits both and usually, unless I can delete both
very quickly, Word crashes. Does anyone know a cure for
this? >>

 

[pj lightning]

Hi again bob,
Yes my drawings always contain large numbers of objects. I
have several methods for getting around the problem
depending on how many more text boxes I need to insert.
I'll have to find out how to adapt these to 2002's
different style. In 97 I would first try cutting and
pasting everything into a new document, this generally
bought me a few more text boxes. Another way was, if
working withing the drawing screen, to cut and paste
everything straight onto the page, (or if working on the
page, to import a new metafile, cut and paste everything
into it, come out of it back onto the main page, then set
it to float over text and put the rest of the text boxes
over the top. Plan C involved wordart when all else had
failed. I was really hoping that 2002 would have solved
this problem. Despite this bug I still find word's picture
handling to be excellent.

-----Original Message-----
Hi P.J.,

Is this a document that was created in a previous version
or that has a lot of Objects in it? If so, the document
may have become corrupted and you can get the behavior you see.

Sometimes saving it as a web document or as an RTF file,
closing Word and reopening, after deleting all files found
through Start->Search with *.tmp;~$*.*
then restarting Word will help.

Be sure you're not using 'Allow Fast Saves' in Tools=>Options=>Save

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