Sadly, there’s no way to link multiple boxes at once.

Do that by selecting the last box in the current chain and linking it to the next empty box.

Multiple text boxes can be linked to make a chain of three or more. The text inside a text box can (and usually should) have a style applied to it. If at all possible, format once then clone to other locations. Text Boxes don’t have styles so changing the look of one box has to be manually copied to any others. Then duplicate (copy and paste) that box to other places in your document. Copy the text boxįor consistency, we suggest making and formatting the first text box. The target or ‘linked to’ text box has to be empty and that includes the placeholder text Microsoft adds to every new text box automatically.ĭelete that text before trying to link. No cut/paste or juggling of text required. Now the unseen text from the first text box appears in the linked box.Īll the text will automatically flow between the boxes as needed, for example if you change the text inside the boxes or change the size of the text boxes. The mouse pointer changes into a flowing cup to click into another text box.

Click in the first one, then choose Format | Text | Create Link. Create Text Box LinkĪt its simplest, put two text boxes in a document. Linked boxes is a trick that’s a common feature in professional publishing and layout tools that was quietly added to Word. Yet again with Word, there’s some extra tricks available beyond simple linking of boxes. Separate text boxes in Microsoft Word can be linked so text in one box can automatically flow into another text box later on the same page or document.

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