Mine disappeared when I changed one of the preset styles that was used in the document without updated the current sections. Once I updated the document sections that used that style (which there is an option to have it automatically update the rest of the document sections that use that style when you have one of them selected), it came back. Oct 14, 2007 - I think I've seen webpages/programs where there are fields (like the one I'm typing in right now!) in which there is text that disappears once the.
Do you ever notice that your table text disappears after you perform certain operations in Word? For example, when you click and drag a row to move it to another part of the table, instead of moving the whole row, it replaces the contents of existing cells in the destination row. This usually occurs because when you click and drag across a row, you may have selected only the cells in the row, not the entire row. To select the entire row, you must also select the invisible end-of-row marker.
Here's how:. Click the Show/Hide button in the Standard toolbar. Move the mouse to the left margin; when the pointer becomes a white arrow, point to the row you want to move and right-click. Point the white arrow toward the row below the insertion point. Right-click and select Paste. Using the white arrow pointer to select (rather than click and drag) gives you more control when selecting the end-of-row marker. With the Show/Hide button on, you can see for sure whether you have selected both the cells and the end-of-row marker for the row.
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I'm trying to use Word 2011 in publishing layout view for the first time to produce a song sheet. I've created a blank document in landscape format with 2 pages. On each page I have created 4 text boxes that sit side by side in columns. I have linked the text boxes in order so that reading across page 1, the columns are ordered 7-8-1-2 and reading across page 2 they are ordered 3-4-5-6, so that when the document is printed out on both sides and it can be folded in two, to give 1-2 on the front, 3-4-5-6 inside, and 7-8 on the back. When I paste text in at the start of the first text box, it flows as it should from one to the next all the way through to the 8th text box. But when I do stuff like try to format the text, or move one of the text boxes slightly, sometimes the contents of some of the text boxes disappear. Sometimes it comes back after a while, or if I use Undo, and sometimes it doesn't seem to.
Is there a reason for this behaviour that I can sort out? Is it a forlorn hope to use Word for this kind of thing at all? (I seem to remember that with older versions of Word for Windows, which is what I have been accustomed to until very recently, linked text boxes and that kind of thing tended to be flaky. But I had gathered that publishing layout view in Word 2011 was supposed to be good.) Can I work round this, or should I give up and use a 'real' DTP app (or Apple's Pages)?
Here's a wrinkle on this now-you-see-it thing: Working on a project with several people. In order to keep figures & textboxes together, several are inserted in a Drawing Canvas, in the Windows version of MS Word. Everything appears OK on the Mac except that textboxes in one canvas object are filled with text, all others appear blank. Resize the canvas with text visible, and text disappears from all boxes in that canvas, but another canvas's textboxes become visible. I tested this copying & pasting one whole canvas multiple times, so all would have identical settings.
The figures were pasted in as enhanced metafiles (again, in a windows environment), and there are no problems whatsoever - they always appear and are movable, etc. Text boxes are editable, at least when text is visible. However, if I move each canvas to its own page then text becomes visible. Apparently, only one canvas per page is allowed to have visible text on the Mac. Windows version, no problems.
Anyone have ANY ideas or suggestions? If this is causing a problem with your workflow, please let Microsoft know about it. This forum is peer-to-peer and Microsoft would not know about the problem from your posting here.
To send feedback to Microsoft, go to the Word Help menu and choose Send Feedback. Be sure to describe the update levels of Word on the Mac and Word on the PC you have, and which file format (hopefully not an old style such as.doc). Include as much detail as possible. Assume that the person reading your feedback has never encountered the problem and has no idea what a drawing canvass is or how to make one. I am an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft. 'Independent Advisors' work for contractors hired by Microsoft.
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