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Continue a story elsewhere with linked text boxes

If you anticipate a lot of changes to your text, it is recommended that you make your changes before you copy the text into the empty linked text boxes.

1. Switch to print layout view.
2. On the Insert menu, click Text Box.
3. Click or drag in your document where you want to insert the first text box.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to insert additional text boxes where you want the text to flow.
5. Click the first text box.

   To do this, move the pointer over the border of the text box until the pointer becomes a four-headed arrow, and then click the border.

6. On the Text Box toolbar, click Create Text Box Link .
7. Click in the empty text box that you want the text to flow to.

   When you move the upright pitcher over a text box that can receive the link, the pitcher turns into a pouring pitcher.

   

8. To link to additional text boxes, click the text box that you just created the link to, and then repeat steps 6 and 7 to create links.
9. In the first text box, type or paste the text that you want. As the text box fills, the text will flow into the other text boxes that you've linked.

Notes

• If you click Create Text Box Link , and then decide you don't want to link to another text box, press ESC to cancel the linking process.
• You can also use circles, banners, flow chart shapes, and other AutoShapes as linked text box containers.