Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Linking Text Boxes

If you've ever tried to create a newsletter, you know that it can be difficult to manage the "jumps" from one page to another within an article—especially if you're still editing that article. You may have found yourself moving small chunks of copy manually from one page to the next—and then having to do it again after you made more edits.

With Word's linked text box feature, that's no longer necessary. As you edit an article to become longer or shorter, the contents of each linked text box can adjust accordingly—automatically.

Linked text boxes were traditionally found only in dedicated desktop publishing applications such as Adobe PageMaker and Microsoft Publisher. Using text boxes, you may be able to publish many documents ...