This Microsoft Word tutorial shows how to insert and format a text box. Watch more at This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter fourteen of the Word for Mac 2011 Essential Training course presented by lynda.com author Maria Langer. The complete Word for Mac 2011 Essential Training course has a total duration of 7 hours and covers building outlines, formatting text and pages, working with headers and footers, using themes and styles, adding multimedia, and more Word for Mac 2011 Essential Training table of contents: Introduction 1. Understanding the Word Interface 2. Working with Files 3. Learning the Basics of Text Entry 4. Learning the Basics of Text Editing 5.

Formatting Text Characters 6. Formatting Paragraphs 7. Working with Tab Tables 8. Using Styles 9. Using Other Text Formatting Techniques 10. Formatting Documents and Sections 11.

Adding Headers and Footers 12. Working with Cell Tables 13. Using Borders and Shading 14. Working with Multimedia Elements 15. Using Automatic Text Features 16.

Working with Outlines 17. Using Word's Writing Tools 18. Working with Other Users in Word 19. Creating Letters, Envelopes, and Labels 20.

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Controlling Privacy and Security 21. Printing Documents 22. Using Macros 23. Customizing Word Conclusion.

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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. 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.

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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. 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.