Change how text flows between connected text boxes

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

  1. Select the paragraph you want to start in a new text box.
  2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Paragraph Breaks tab.
  3. Select the Start in next text box check box.

ShowInsert a section break that starts the text following it in the next connected text box

You can insert a section break anywhere in a text box. The section break causes the text following it to start in the next connected text box.

  1. Click where you want to insert the section break.
  2. Press CTRL+ENTER.

ShowRemove a section break

To remove a section break, you must delete the section break special character.

  1. On the Standard toolbar, click Special Characters Button image.

  2. Select the section break text box break symbol that you want to delete.
  3. Press DELETE.

ShowDisconnect text boxes from each other

  1. Select the first box.
  2. On the Connect Text Boxes toolbar, click Break Forward Link Button image.

Note  Disconnecting two connected boxes is like breaking a link in a chain. The text in the broken-off part of the chain disappears from the disconnected boxes and overflows the selected box.