How did my text boxes get linked, and how do I undo it?

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Making a flowchart, I noticed as I was editing a text box, another text box in the chart was changing to match. I cut them both out, but when I try to insert new ones, they automatically link to others. HELP!!

 

[Bob S]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:06:02 -0700, Lori H <Lori

Making a flowchart, I noticed as I was editing a text box, another text box in the chart was changing to match. I cut them both out, but when I try to insert new ones, they automatically link to others. HELP!!

The other times that I have heard of this, it turned out to be a rare
form of document corruption. One person even had two cursors for a
while!

Follow the usual procedures for corrupt documents.

Bob S

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:06:02 -0700, Lori H <Lori


The other times that I have heard of this, it turned out to be a rare
form of document corruption. One person even had two cursors for a
while!

Follow the usual procedures for corrupt documents.

The first way to check for a corrupt document is to
copy the entire thing, *excluding* the last paragraph mark, into a new
document. That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can get
corrupted, and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps your
formatting, but can fix some glitches.

A paragraph mark is a gray ¶. Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show
nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks.

See this link for further info:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

DM