How Do I insert text in a document full of tables and text boxes?

[Guest]

Hello everyone,

My problem is this: I have a document with a couple of text boxes and tables
on one page and there is space at the bottom of the page that I would like to
use. Word 2003 won't give me an "I-beam" when I click on the empty space at
the bottom of the document. If I double-click enough times, Word takes me to
the top of the document next to a text box.

The reason why I need this is to force Word to continue on to the next page
instead of me having to choose "new Page" which would create an entirely new
document.

I have Service Pack 2 already installed. Uhm . . . help!


Thanks.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Click on the Show/Hide button ¶ and after the table you should see a ¶
place the cursor before that and start typing. Or, use Ctrl+End and start
typing. Ctrl+End will take you to the end of the document.

Another thing that might be causing this problem is the Text Wrapping of the
table. Place the cursor in the table and frpm the Tables menu, select
Properties and set the Text wrapping to none.

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[Guest]

I can't find this show/Hide button. Also, when I use Ctrl+End keyboard combo,
the I-beam does not move from its postition at the top of the document.

Just to make things clear, I don't want to type anything into any of the
text boxes nor tables in the document. I want to type in the "outside" space
of those text boxes and tables "without" having to creat a new text box or
table to do it.

Thanks.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

What about the table wrapping?

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Hope this helps.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The Show/Hide ¶ is on the Standard toolbar. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+*.
If the document was created in an older version of Word, very likely the
wrapping on the text boxes is None (equivalent to In Front of Text), which
means that the text paragraph into which you could type is behind a text
box. You'll need to change the wrapping of the text box to Square to get the
text paragraph (indicated by ¶) out where you can type in it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Doug,

You're a genius! When I selected the "table wrapping" to "around," the damn
thing worked. that's what I call great tech support.

Happy Holidays!