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Publisher 2003 - Link Text Boxes After-The-Fact
I have an 85-page document in MS Pub 2003. Each page is a separate text box.
Upon reviewing the 85 pages, I found that there is a broken link between two of the boxes, causing a huge blank space to appear when I print the entire document. Is there a way I can repair this chain by re-establishing a link between the two unlinked text boxes? |
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Publisher 2003 - Link Text Boxes After-The-Fact
All the text will have remained in the first box, if the link has failed you can
re-link to the second box. If for some reason you cannot re-link, delete the second box, create a new text box and link. -- Mary Sauer MVP http://msauer.mvps.org/ "TomWilliams" wrote in message ... I have an 85-page document in MS Pub 2003. Each page is a separate text box. Upon reviewing the 85 pages, I found that there is a broken link between two of the boxes, causing a huge blank space to appear when I print the entire document. Is there a way I can repair this chain by re-establishing a link between the two unlinked text boxes? |
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Publisher 2003 - Link Text Boxes After-The-Fact
Thanks for the reply. I guess I misstated my problem. The broken link is
between pages 10 and 11. Both 10 and 11 each contain text, but the link between them may have never existed due to my error. Now, I wish to establish the link between 10 and 11, since the text of these 85 pages is being changed almost every day by added text and photos. Your statement about "re-linking" does not seem to work, probably because the link never existed in the first place. Is there any way at all for me to link pages 10 and 11 at this late stage? Thanks. "TomWilliams" wrote: I have an 85-page document in MS Pub 2003. Each page is a separate text box. Upon reviewing the 85 pages, I found that there is a broken link between two of the boxes, causing a huge blank space to appear when I print the entire document. Is there a way I can repair this chain by re-establishing a link between the two unlinked text boxes? |
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Publisher 2003 - Link Text Boxes After-The-Fact
You can only link a text box if the second text box is empty. You can pull page
11 off to the scratch area, create a new text box on page 11, link page 10 to the new 11. Copy the text from the scratch area, paste it to the end of page 10, the text will flow into the new page 11. -- Mary Sauer MVP http://msauer.mvps.org/ "TomWilliams" wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply. I guess I misstated my problem. The broken link is between pages 10 and 11. Both 10 and 11 each contain text, but the link between them may have never existed due to my error. Now, I wish to establish the link between 10 and 11, since the text of these 85 pages is being changed almost every day by added text and photos. Your statement about "re-linking" does not seem to work, probably because the link never existed in the first place. Is there any way at all for me to link pages 10 and 11 at this late stage? Thanks. "TomWilliams" wrote: I have an 85-page document in MS Pub 2003. Each page is a separate text box. Upon reviewing the 85 pages, I found that there is a broken link between two of the boxes, causing a huge blank space to appear when I print the entire document. Is there a way I can repair this chain by re-establishing a link between the two unlinked text boxes? |
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Publisher 2003 - Link Text Boxes After-The-Fact
Your solution for creating a link between pages 10 and 11 via the scratch
area seems to work, but due to my imprecise statement of the problem, I still haven't been able to accomplish a complete chain extending from page 1 all the way through to page 85, inclusive. There is now no link between pages 11 and 12. I'm beginning to get the idea that what I want to do is not possible. It appears that once the chain is broken at any point between these two extremes (1-85), it is not within the scope of Publisher 2003 to make the chain "whole." Sorry to have taken up so much of your time with this, but I hoped to find a solution to this problem. Does Publisher 2007 have any increased capabilities in this area? Tom W. "Mary Sauer" wrote: You can only link a text box if the second text box is empty. You can pull page 11 off to the scratch area, create a new text box on page 11, link page 10 to the new 11. Copy the text from the scratch area, paste it to the end of page 10, the text will flow into the new page 11. -- Mary Sauer MVP http://msauer.mvps.org/ "TomWilliams" wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply. I guess I misstated my problem. The broken link is between pages 10 and 11. Both 10 and 11 each contain text, but the link between them may have never existed due to my error. Now, I wish to establish the link between 10 and 11, since the text of these 85 pages is being changed almost every day by added text and photos. Your statement about "re-linking" does not seem to work, probably because the link never existed in the first place. Is there any way at all for me to link pages 10 and 11 at this late stage? Thanks. "TomWilliams" wrote: I have an 85-page document in MS Pub 2003. Each page is a separate text box. Upon reviewing the 85 pages, I found that there is a broken link between two of the boxes, causing a huge blank space to appear when I print the entire document. Is there a way I can repair this chain by re-establishing a link between the two unlinked text boxes? . |
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