Text Boxes Affect each other

[Guest]

Hi!
In a Word 2K doc, there are several flowcharts made of text boxes. each page
contains 2 or 3 flowcharts. Each flowchart is grouped for itself.
When I make any change (e.g format font, ungroup the flowchart) to one of
those flowcharts, other flowcharts in other pages are affected e.g.: part of
the text in one text box appears in other tex box in a different page, the
font changes or text boxes just disapear. I find miself going over and over
again correcting the doc from the beginning. I AM GOING MAD...
The machine runs Win 2K and Office 2K, PIV, 512 Mb RAM, 15Gb free disk space.

Please advise,
Thanks in advance,
Hector

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?REdFTkc=?=,

It seems to happen more often in newer versions of Word, but there is
definitely a problem in the internal document structures that manage the text
boxes. Especially if you copy/paste a text box in a document, things seem to
get rather mixed up.

Usually, it helps to copy everything except the last paragraph mark to a new
document.

In a Word 2K doc, there are several flowcharts made of text boxes. each page
contains 2 or 3 flowcharts. Each flowchart is grouped for itself.
When I make any change (e.g format font, ungroup the flowchart) to one of
those flowcharts, other flowcharts in other pages are affected e.g.: part of
the text in one text box appears in other tex box in a different page, the
font changes or text boxes just disapear. I find miself going over and over
again correcting the doc from the beginning. I AM GOING MAD...
The machine runs Win 2K and Office 2K, PIV, 512 Mb RAM, 15Gb free disk space.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Dearest Cindy Meister!

Thanks for your advice but I also did that with no avail.

Still Waiting for a solution...

Thanks,
Hector

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Hector

Thanks for your advice but I also did that with no avail.

Still Waiting for a solution...

Try saving to HTML format, close the document, then re-open it and save it back to
*.doc format. With any luck, the round-trip will strip out the "bad stuff".

If that doesn't help, then you may have no choice but to recreate the flow charts
from scratch.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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