Troubleshoot keeping text or paragraphs together

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

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The text you selected was probably in the last text box of a story. If you select text in the last text box of a story and then choose Start in next text box on the Line and Paragraph Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box (Format menu), Publisher puts the text into overflow.

To make the text visible again, do one of the following:

  • Add a new text box to the end of the story

    ShowHow?

    1. On the Objects toolbar, click Text Box Button image.
    2. In your publication, point to where you want one corner of the text to appear, and then drag diagonally until you have the box size you want.
    3. Click in the text box that was formerly the last one in the chain of connected boxes.
    4. On the Connect Text Boxes toolbar, click Create Text Box Link Button image.

      The mouse pointer changes to a pitcher Mouse pointer.

    5. Click the new text box.

      This text box is now connected to the previous box, and the text that had been in overflow appears in it.

  • Keep all of the text in the original text box

    ShowHow?

    To do this, you must first create a new text box, and then clear the Start in next text box option.

    1. On the Objects toolbar, click Text Box Button image.
    2. In the scratch area, point to where you want one corner of the text to appear, and then drag diagonally until you have the box size you want.
    3. Click in the text box that was formerly the last one in the chain of connected boxes.
    4. On the Connect Text Boxes toolbar, click Create Text Box Link Button image.

      The mouse pointer changes to a pitcher Mouse pointer.

    5. Click the new text box.

      This text box is now connected to the previous box, and the text that had been in overflow appears in it.

    6. Select the first paragraph in the new text box.
    7. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Paragraph Breaks tab.
    8. Clear the Start in next text box check box.
    9. Click OK.

      The text reappears in its original text box.

    10. Do one of the following:
      • Delete the text box you created in the scratch area.
      • Drag the text box from the scratch area to a page where you want to use it.
      • Unlink the text boxes.

    Note  Once you create a linked text box, text will always flow into it unless you delete or unlink the text box.

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