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jppatterson
Aug 14, 2025Copper Contributor
Text Boxes Have Been Acting Weird Recently
I have a user who has been using text boxes in Word for many years. Today she showed me that when she types in one text box, the text affects another text box. On top of that, sometimes when she ty...
S_K
Aug 21, 2025Copper Contributor
I have the exact same issue. After downloading word onto my new Mac, my existing document with textboxes suddenly has this issue, when there were no issues with that document before. Happens in new documents with new textboxes too. Very frustrating.
- P_JARAug 26, 2025Copper Contributor
I have exactly the same problem. I tried all possible tips and tricks..but no luck. Even my IT department was not able to solve the problem, so I had to use my own private PC with Apache OpenOffice to complete my work. Pretty embarrassing for such company as Microsoft.
- Stefan_BlomAug 22, 2025MVP
Try some of the workarounds I mentioned above. They should work in Word for Mac as well.