As the boxes are cells of a table, you can't get the text to flow across the
cell boundaries. You could merge the cells, but this would muck up the
dates.
What you can do though is insert a textbox over the cells that you want to
text to flow across and format the text box so that it has no borders or
fill
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP