I sent this in to the list back on July 25. Never got any replies. Still having the same problem. Does anyone have an idea what is wrong and how to correct it? Lew Russakov Huntington Beach, CA 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 The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml