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What is that? i know that when red dots appear around the edges it mean my text is overflowing, but I can not figure out what that black box is. It comes and goes.
And . . . if anyone in development wants my opinion about the not so great changes in publisher, just contact me! There are a lot of great things in there, but perhaps the developers should contact a few of us AVID users before they make major changes. (that goes for Power Point too - I use both of these programs A LOT! - Publisher more than six hours every day!)
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This has just started happening to me about a month or so ago. I'm right there with you...not a huge issue except not knowing what it is - and not being able to find out - is annoying!
Sharing your curiosity!
Never mind . . . it's not important. I just thought here there might be someone who knows something more than I do about the program.
This is NOT a formatting issue - it's NOT a hardware issue. This is something the programmers/devlopers built in - I assume as some kind of warning. It's similar to the "you've run your text out the bottom of the box" sign, but it's solid black and it disappears after a while.
Are there any programmers there who know? If not, it doesn't mattter. It doesn't effect the appearance on screen most of the time and it never effects the print out. There's just NOTHING else about the program I don't know. . . so I was curious.
In Pub 2007 when you selected a text box you would see small circles at each corner and half way along the edge of the text box. You could grab those circles to resize the text box. In Pub 2010 when you select a text box these small circles and connecting lines appear just outside the boundary of the text box. If you turn on view boundaries you will see the hash mark boundary or the actual text box just inside this new 'selected text box boundary'. It is just a new way of showing what text box is selected.
DavidF
I don't think so. I do have boundaries turned off and that temporary boundary is visible, but this is a THICK black box that comes only occasionally. It's probably at least 6 pt thick over the normal boundary lines that will disappear when I click off of the text box. This thicker box comes while I'm typing. I'm still in the text box, and it's different than the red dots that appear when my text has outgrown the current text box.
It probably is the boundary. If it comes and goes it means you don't have boundaries selected in the View tab.