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Does anyone else feel disappointed with Word:Mac 2011's text-box functions in publishing layout view?
I'm a poet and like to play around with text layout, including overlaying portions of text. I was really impressed with the smooth operation in Word:Mac 2008 ... the only downside was you couldn't turn text upside down, nor could you angle lines of text. So, I upgraded to 2011 just so as to gain that extra rotation function with text boxes.
Annoyingly, now when you slide a text box into position the text in the box momentarily disappears, whereas in 2008 the text remained visible and moved smoothly, which allowed for some fairly precise text alignments, and no interruption to creativity. But ... even worse, in 2011, when you move text boxes containing substantial sections of text, portions of the text either disappear, not momentarily but for considerable time, and often text also becomes visually garbled, mostly by the top halves of letters on a line being sliced off... this is pretty rubbish for such an expensive piece of software.
I've tried my partner's Word:Mac 2011 on her Mac, and the same problem persists.
Is this a known bug? Is there a fix for this?
I'm a poet and like to play around with text layout, including overlaying portions of text. I was really impressed with the smooth operation in Word:Mac 2008 ... the only downside was you couldn't turn text upside down, nor could you angle lines of text. So, I upgraded to 2011 just so as to gain that extra rotation function with text boxes.
Annoyingly, now when you slide a text box into position the text in the box momentarily disappears, whereas in 2008 the text remained visible and moved smoothly, which allowed for some fairly precise text alignments, and no interruption to creativity. But ... even worse, in 2011, when you move text boxes containing substantial sections of text, portions of the text either disappear, not momentarily but for considerable time, and often text also becomes visually garbled, mostly by the top halves of letters on a line being sliced off... this is pretty rubbish for such an expensive piece of software.
I've tried my partner's Word:Mac 2011 on her Mac, and the same problem persists.
Is this a known bug? Is there a fix for this?