Add Text Box In Word For Mac

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Yes, but Arshad doesn't:-) What you are experiencing is a 'feature' of text boxes. Text Boxes are a 'floating' graphics element. They are not actually in the 'text' part of the document.

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Text Boxes are anchored to the same place as the headers and footers: the default section break of the document. So unless you print the start of the document, the content of the text boxes is not 'there' to be printed. I could go on with a lot more detail if you like, but that's the basic issue. You have to print the whole document to get the text boxes or other floating graphics items to print reliably.

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You can solve this by first printing to PDF, then choosing the page(s) you want from the PDF to print those. Or you can resign yourself to throwing away the pages you don't want. Sorry: this is just the way it works. Hope this helps John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer.