Text box positioning

[pjcroker01]

MS Word 2019

What I’m trying to achieve should be simple!

I want an A4 document, landscape orientation with two columns. I want to be able to insert a grouped text box which is the full column width. Then I want to populate the “cells” by copy/paste from an excel spreadsheet – so far so good

I then want to either type or copy/paste content below the text box – sometimes just one line sometimes much more – again so far so good. Please note that I am adding the text first, positioning the cursor and then adding the text box

When I try and repeat the process, by pasting in the next text/text box combination, all hell breaks loose and the text boxes jump around all over the shop!

I think I’ve tried every wrapping/size/position possible to no avail.

I have managed to achieve something similar by modifying and reducing the width of the text box and wrapping the text to the right and below but this does not give me the appearance that I want.

I’m sure this should be simple but the text boxes seem to have a mind of their own

Regards Peter

[#2]

@pjcroker01 I would use a one-cell table instead of text boxes.

Use paragraph formatting to keep things together.

The only reason that I have ever had to use a text box was when I needed to make use of the linking facility.

[#3]

Doug, Hi, thanks for your response. I'm not sure that I understand what you mean but your answer has given me food for thought and what I have done is to place a text box which has the 6 "cells" that I need inside a single cell table and it seems to work. I'm fairly sure it's not what you meant but I'll give a try!

Kind Regards Peter

[#4]

@pjcroker01 I would NOT use a textbox or textboxes FULL STOP!

If you want six cells, use a six column table.

[#5]

Doug, OK I'll give a try. Many thanks