Learn to Use your Computer

You might use text boxes to create a sidebar that has text related to the main topic of your Word document. If the sidebar is particularly long, you can continue it in another text box.

Follow these steps to create a set of nicely linked text boxes:

Type the text you want to place in a series of text boxes.

Linked text boxes work best if you first create the text they contain. You can even type the text in a separate document.

Create two or more text boxes to hold the text.

Position the text boxes where you want them to appear in your document. They don't have to be on the same page.

Select the text you typed in Step 1 and press Ctrl+C.

Select the first text box and press Ctrl+V.

The text from the Clipboard pastes into the first text box. The text box displays as much of the text as it can; the rest is hidden.

Right-click the text box and choose Create Text Box Link.

The mouse pointer changes to a weird looking coffee cup.

Click the second text box.

The text from the first text box continues into the second.

If you want to spill text into additional text boxes, repeat Steps 5 and 6.

You can link as many text boxes together as you want.