Textbox - Text duplication

Hi,

My colleague is working on a document and the following happens in an
erratic manner. When she copies a textbox and pastes it in the same
page in a different position then, "two" textboxes gets created.
Whatever is written in the first textbox gets replicated in the
"second" textbox.

Sometimes, when a new textbox is created and some text is written in
it, then the same text also gets written in one of the lines in that
page.

What could be the issue?

Word 2003 and Win XP

Regards
HP
India

My colleague is working on a document and the following happens in an
erratic manner. When she copies a textbox and pastes it in the same
page in a different position then, "two" textboxes gets created.
Whatever is written in the first textbox gets replicated in the
"second" textbox.

Sometimes, when a new textbox is created and some text is written in
it, then the same text also gets written in one of the lines in that
page.

What could be the issue?

Word 2003 and Win XP

This is a problem in Word, especially 2003. Copying/pasting Drawing
objects with text has the nasty tendency to "link" them. Word literally
thinks they are one and the same object, just being displayed twice in
the document. In short: she shouldn't do that.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote:

My colleague is working on a document and the following happens in an
erratic manner. When she copies a textbox and pastes it in the same
page in a different position then, "two" textboxes gets created.
Whatever is written in the first textbox gets replicated in the
"second" textbox.

Sometimes, when a new textbox is created and some text is written in
it, then the same text also gets written in one of the lines in that
page.

What could be the issue?

Word 2003 and Win XP

This is a problem in Word, especially 2003. Copying/pasting Drawing
objects with text has the nasty tendency to "link" them. Word literally
thinks they are one and the same object, just being displayed twice in
the document. In short: she shouldn't do that.

Thnx for your reply. Strangely, this happens (some of the times) even
when she creates a textbox from scratch (not copying). Anything written
in this new textbox is also parallely written in one of the paragraphs
in word. Again, this is not consistent behaviour.

Regards,
HP
India
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question
or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

My colleague is working on a document and the following happens in an
erratic manner. When she copies a textbox and pastes it in the same
page in a different position then, "two" textboxes gets created.
Whatever is written in the first textbox gets replicated in the
"second" textbox.

Sometimes, when a new textbox is created and some text is written in
it, then the same text also gets written in one of the lines in that
page.

What could be the issue?

Word 2003 and Win XP

This is a problem in Word, especially 2003. Copying/pasting Drawing
objects with text has the nasty tendency to "link" them. Word literally
thinks they are one and the same object, just being displayed twice in
the document. In short: she shouldn't do that.

Thnx for your reply. Strangely, this happens (some of the times) even
when she creates a textbox from scratch (not copying). Anything written
in this new textbox is also parallely written in one of the paragraphs
in word. Again, this is not consistent behaviour.

If this is happening in documents that already have problems, it's not
surprising. The internal structures that manage the textboxes are already
"mixed up". She can try selecting all EXCEPT the last paragraph mark and
pasting into a new document.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote:
My colleague is working on a document and the following happens in an
erratic manner. When she copies a textbox and pastes it in the same
page in a different position then, "two" textboxes gets created.
Whatever is written in the first textbox gets replicated in the
"second" textbox.

Sometimes, when a new textbox is created and some text is written in
it, then the same text also gets written in one of the lines in that
page.

What could be the issue?

Word 2003 and Win XP

This is a problem in Word, especially 2003. Copying/pasting Drawing
objects with text has the nasty tendency to "link" them. Word literally
thinks they are one and the same object, just being displayed twice in
the document. In short: she shouldn't do that.

Thnx for your reply. Strangely, this happens (some of the times) even
when she creates a textbox from scratch (not copying). Anything written
in this new textbox is also parallely written in one of the paragraphs
in word. Again, this is not consistent behaviour.

If this is happening in documents that already have problems, it's not
surprising. The internal structures that manage the textboxes are already
"mixed up". She can try selecting all EXCEPT the last paragraph mark and
pasting into a new document.


Thnx a lot for your response. We will try it out and get back in case
it persists.

Regards,
HP
India

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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