Word2007 text box link limit?

[G Henkel]

Does Word 2007 still have that retarded 32 text box link limit or did
someone finally take the software out of the 80s?

Thanks for any info,
Guido

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Word 2007 still has the 32-box link limit.

 

[G Henkel]

This is ridiculous! Can anyone understand why everything in Word is so
totally half-baked? I mean, nothing really works in that program once you
exceed 2-page documents.

Well, at least I can save the money to upgrade to Office 2007 now. I guess
I'll check to see if OpenOffice can handle text boxes properly without
falling apart after a few links.

Thanks,
Guido

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, Word is designed to create long documents, but not with text boxes.
Text boxes are really intended only for very specific, limited purposes. If
you need text box connectivity, you should be using page layout software and
not word processing software. I have created documents upwards of 500 pages
in Word without a single text box.

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

 

[G Henkel]

Good for you! If Word weren't so darn quirky I wouldn't need text boxes
either but as it stands I'm trying to work around one of these bugs and no
matter what I try, Word's limitations simply won't let me do it.

Guido

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word is not a jack of all trades. These are not bugs but design limitations.
Word it is not a page layout application, so get over it! If you want DTP
functionality use DTP software!
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[G Henkel]

All I want is to flow a couple of pages of text in two columns and block one
out on one page. Whoopdeedoo! Not exactly DTP material. And Word can't even
do that.

Get over it. Word is a piece of crap that can't do anything right.

Guido

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If that's all you want to do, then why do you need more than 32 linked text
boxes?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

That must explain why nobody uses Word, and everybody uses Open Office
instead, which is free. Because, given the choice of using something that's
free, why would anybody pay to use a "piece of crap that can't do anything
right"? That would be completely illogical. Finally, we can now understand
why Bill Gates is poor, and Microsoft is still working out of a garage and
will never succeed.

We get it.

You don't like Word because it doesn't do what you want it to do. Fine. So,
go get yourself a program that DOES do what you want. Then, take your own
advice: Get over it.