You can select all text for a story that is contained in a series of linked text boxes.Ĭlick in any linked text box, and then press + A. To show all the text, you might need to resize the remaining text boxes by dragging their resize handles. Note: When you delete the text box, the story text from the deleted text box flows into the remaining linked text boxes.
The text box is selected when the resize handles appear. Rest the pointer on the border of the text box until the pointer becomes, and then click the border. Select a text box that's part of a story. ĭelete a linked text box without deleting story text On the text box frame, click the next text box handle or previous text box handle. This is useful when a document contains multiple stories that span different pages, or contains stories with many linked text boxes. You can step through linked text boxes to identify which text boxes are linked and to track the flow of a story. You can paste the copied text directly into your document, into another location within the same story, or into another story. To copy some of the text from a story, select only the text that you want to copy, and then copy it. You can drag text boxes to new locations within the same document, or into another Word document. To move text boxes, use the Cut command instead of the Copy command. Hold down SHIFT and select each text box in the story.
To successfully copy linked text boxes and the text that they contain, you must copy all the linked text boxes in a story. You can copy a story, or a chain of linked text boxes, to another document or to another location in the same Word document. On the Format tab, under Text Box, click Break Link. On the View menu, click Print Layout or Publishing Layout.Ĭlick the text box that you want to be the last link in the story. If you want to, you can then reflow the text starting in any empty text box. The second series of linked text boxes, which now forms its own story, is empty. However, the text stops flowing at the last text box before the broken link. The links before and after the break stay intact. When you break a link in a story, you create two stories. You can break a link between any two text boxes that are part of a story. The drawback to this approach, of course, is that text will not freely flow from one table column to the other.Note: You can only link to an empty text box.Ī text box can have only one forward (next) link and one backward (previous) link. You can then place information in either the left or right column of the table, as desired. If you then group the three text boxes, you can move them as a complete, single unit.Īnother potential solution is to create a two-column, single-row table in your text box. You can remove the borders from the column text boxes, but keep the border on the larger text box. For instance, if you want a single border around the entire two-columns you are creating, then make sure your two "column" text boxes appear within a larger text box. You can also format your text boxes so that borders appear as desired. When it reaches the bottom of the text box, it flows to the right text box. The mouse pointer returns to normal.Įnter your text in the left-most text box, as desired. When you move the mouse pointer to the right text box (the one that will form the "right column" of your multi-column layout) it changes to a pouring cup, signifying that text could overflow into that column. When the pointer is located in the left text box (the one on which you clicked) it appears upright and normal.
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