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Unlinking text boxes
Publisher 2003, Windows XP.
I have received a 43 page document that has all the pages linked, with text autoflowing from page to page. I've tried to unlink the text boxes so that I can insert pages and make revisions without affecting every page that follows. When I do unlink the text boxes at the beginning of the document I lose all text on the following pages. Only the clipart remains. What am I missing? I assumed that unlinking would simply take off the autoflow from page to page? Thanks for any help you can suggest. |
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Have you tried just inserting the pages you need without unlinking the text
boxes? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... Publisher 2003, Windows XP. I have received a 43 page document that has all the pages linked, with text autoflowing from page to page. I've tried to unlink the text boxes so that I can insert pages and make revisions without affecting every page that follows. When I do unlink the text boxes at the beginning of the document I lose all text on the following pages. Only the clipart remains. What am I missing? I assumed that unlinking would simply take off the autoflow from page to page? Thanks for any help you can suggest. |
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Surelyknot was very recently
heard to utter: When I do unlink the text boxes at the beginning of the document I lose all text on the following pages. Only the clipart remains. What am I missing? I assumed that unlinking would simply take off the autoflow from page to page? Unlinking the text boxes does remove the text flow. That means that text from box number n no longer flows into box number (n + 1), and is all in the overflow area of box n, hence the blank text boxes. A solution is to first go to the beginning of box (n + 1), Ctrl+Shift+End (select to end of story), Ctrl+X (cut), then break the link, and click back into box (n + 1) and Ctrl+V (Paste). -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org/ |
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Thanks Ed. I understand what you are saying about the text being in the
overflw area of box n. But in trying your solution, I do the Select to end of story, cut, break the link and then the text from n+2 comes into the box where n+1 was. Then when I paste back into that box, it says do I want to use overflow and I say NO or else I'll just be back to where I started. However the text that was in n+2 is now in the overflow. Do I need to insert a new page for that text to get manually cut and paste from the overflow to?" I hope this is clear. Thanks |
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Thanks JoAnn.
I did try inserting pages without unlinking. But then when I added 1/2 pg of text and tried to paste the text from the following linked box to come after the 1/2 page of text, it completely ignored that box and pasted onto the page before the inserted page. Grrr! "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Have you tried just inserting the pages you need without unlinking the text boxes? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... Publisher 2003, Windows XP. I have received a 43 page document that has all the pages linked, with text autoflowing from page to page. I've tried to unlink the text boxes so that I can insert pages and make revisions without affecting every page that follows. When I do unlink the text boxes at the beginning of the document I lose all text on the following pages. Only the clipart remains. What am I missing? I assumed that unlinking would simply take off the autoflow from page to page? Thanks for any help you can suggest. |
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Can you not add a linked text box on a new page at the end of your document and
do your editing where needed? Or if that isn't possible, shorten a linked text box and create a new text box above or below; adding the new page at the end. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... Thanks Ed. I understand what you are saying about the text being in the overflw area of box n. But in trying your solution, I do the Select to end of story, cut, break the link and then the text from n+2 comes into the box where n+1 was. Then when I paste back into that box, it says do I want to use overflow and I say NO or else I'll just be back to where I started. However the text that was in n+2 is now in the overflow. Do I need to insert a new page for that text to get manually cut and paste from the overflow to?" I hope this is clear. Thanks |
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Unlinking text boxes
The functionality of linking text boxes is great. However, my problem is
slightly different and explaind below. I am creating a brochure with several sections which are not linked. The individual sections are linked within themselves. The brochure has been developed thus far with a lengthy first section of about 13 pages. That is, one quarter of a folded duplex sheet. That section is followed by two additional sections. There is no interlinking between the sections. Total pages so far is 20. The first section needs additional pages. Using the insert pages menu, inserts 4 pages after page 13. I doubt that the entire four pages will be needed. I don't want blank pages in the "middle" of the brochure. How do I move the blank pages to the end, assuming there will be three? Is that where they should go? "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... Publisher 2003, Windows XP. I have received a 43 page document that has all the pages linked, with text autoflowing from page to page. I've tried to unlink the text boxes so that I can insert pages and make revisions without affecting every page that follows. When I do unlink the text boxes at the beginning of the document I lose all text on the following pages. Only the clipart remains. What am I missing? I assumed that unlinking would simply take off the autoflow from page to page? Thanks for any help you can suggest. |
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Surelyknot was very recently
heard to utter: Thanks Ed. I understand what you are saying about the text being in the overflw area of box n. But in trying your solution, I do the Select to end of story, cut, break the link and then the text from n+2 comes into the box where n+1 was. Then when I paste back into that box, it says do I want to use overflow and I say NO or else I'll just be back to where I started. The text from n+2 onwards should be on the clipboard, not in the n+1st text box. You paste back into the text box from which you cut, which should now be empty as it has no link flowing into it. It should be the first box in a second chain. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org/ |
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Thanks Mary. That worked for this particular document. I added several
pages at the end and then was able to insert the text where I needed and the rest overflowed to the linked boxes at the end. You saved me from my frustration. Thanks so much! "Mary Sauer" wrote: Can you not add a linked text box on a new page at the end of your document and do your editing where needed? Or if that isn't possible, shorten a linked text box and create a new text box above or below; adding the new page at the end. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... Thanks Ed. I understand what you are saying about the text being in the overflw area of box n. But in trying your solution, I do the Select to end of story, cut, break the link and then the text from n+2 comes into the box where n+1 was. Then when I paste back into that box, it says do I want to use overflow and I say NO or else I'll just be back to where I started. However the text that was in n+2 is now in the overflow. Do I need to insert a new page for that text to get manually cut and paste from the overflow to?" I hope this is clear. Thanks |
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Ed... I will try this when I get home. I'm at worked and used Mary's
solution of adding linked text boxes at the end. That solved it for this document. But I still want to try it the way you describe when I get home because I'll likely need to do this in the future. Thanks for your patience. "Ed Bennett" wrote: Surelyknot was very recently heard to utter: Thanks Ed. I understand what you are saying about the text being in the overflw area of box n. But in trying your solution, I do the Select to end of story, cut, break the link and then the text from n+2 comes into the box where n+1 was. Then when I paste back into that box, it says do I want to use overflow and I say NO or else I'll just be back to where I started. The text from n+2 onwards should be on the clipboard, not in the n+1st text box. You paste back into the text box from which you cut, which should now be empty as it has no link flowing into it. It should be the first box in a second chain. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org/ |
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