Lew, have you fixed this?  (I'm trying to catch up on the list.)  If you have
not yet uninstalled Word, try this first:  open the drawing menu.  Way on the
left side, right next to "Draw" is the Select Object pointer (it looks like an
arrow, hover the mouse pointer over it if you have tool tips turned and its
name, Select Object, will appear.  Click on it and then try and click on the
text box.

I'd had a similar problem and this should allow you to select the drawing
objects (like Text Box) when they are behind the text.  Once you have it
selected, you need to change from "behind text".

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 21:21:33 -0700, Lewis M Russakov <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I have a very interesting problem. I am using Win XP and Word 2000.
>
>Recently the text box lines and text disappear when I go to Print
>Preview. If I print from there the text box lines and text both do not
>print out.
>
>They do not return when I go back to Word. When I print from Word, the
>lines and text do not print. I have the text box set to be behind the
>text in Format Text Box/Layout.
>
>With my cursor I go to where the lines should be but I can not get
>anything such as the four headed arrow or the dotted lines. By fooling
>around in Word I found that if I just click on File/Page Setup the lines
>come back but not he text and both still do not show up when I print.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Lew Russakov
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