Microsoft KB Archive/157120

= WD97: Two Shortcut Menus for Text Box =

Article ID: 157120

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q157120



SYMPTOMS
If you first select and then right-click on a text box you get one of two shortcut menus. This problem does not occur if the text box is not selected before you right-click. For example, if you right-click on the edge of the text box, the shortcut menu displays the following commands:

Cut

Copy

Paste

Edit Text

Grouping

Order

Create Text Box link

Set AutoShape Defaults

Format Text Box

If you right-click in the center of the text box, the shortcut menu displays these commands:

Cut

Copy

Paste

Borders and shading

Format Frame



WORKAROUND
To select the shortcut menu to format the text box, select the text box and then right-click the border of the text box.

To select the shortcut menu for the text that you typed inside the text box, click once inside the text box and then right-click the text you want to format in the text box. The shortcut menu displays the following commands. (Note that some of the commands listed below may be unavailable if text is not selected inside the text box.)

Cut

Copy

Paste

Font

Paragraph

Bullets and Numbering

Draw Table

Define



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: 8.0 word8 word97

Keywords: KB157120

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