WD2000: Cannot Paste or Drag Text to Text Box

ID: Q211487

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to paste or drag text into a text box, the following symptoms may occur:

Copying and Pasting Text into a Text Box

The following error message appears:

You cannot put drawing objects into a text box, callout, comment, footnote, or endnote.

Dragging Text to a Text Box

Nothing happens after you release the mouse button.

CAUSE

A text box cannot contain an object (character, paragraph mark, and so on) that has an anchor for an object attached to it. Nor can it contain other text boxes, callouts, or reference marks for comments, footnotes, and endnotes. This will cause any paste or drag operation containing such objects to fail.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, do not include an object that an anchor is attached to, text boxes, callouts, or reference marks for comments, footnotes, and endnotes in the selection.

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Keywords          : kberrmsg kbusage winword wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: May 13, 1999