WD97: Picture Deleted When Typing Text Into Text Box

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When a text box contains only a picture, the picture and text box may be deleted when you try to type text into the text box.

WORKAROUND

If you want to type text in a text box that contains only a picture, secondary (right) mouse click the border of the text box and click Edit Text on the shortcut menu. This places your insertion point to the left of the picture. Any text typed into the text box forces the picture down. You may have to resize the text box depending on the amount of text typed into the text box.

If you will type text after the picture is in the text box, press ESC+END. This places the insertion point below the picture. You may have to resize the text box depending on the amount of text you type into the text box.

If you don't need the picture in the text box, then select the picture (after text has been typed in the text box) and delete the picture. The text box is not deleted if you add text to the text box before deleting the picture.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed at the beginning of this article. Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

This feature is different than Word for Windows 95, Word 6.0 for Windows, Word 6.0 for Windows NT, and Word 6.0 for the Macintosh. In the previous versions of Word, you can select just the picture and type text into a text box containing only a picture,. The text replaces the picture without deleting the text box.

In Microsoft Word 97 for Windows, with a text box containing only a picture, if you select the picture and type text, the picture and the text box are deleted. The typed text is added to the body of the document.