Microsoft Publisher and Overflow

Co-Authored by Jeff Pelletier

Overflowing text boxes in Microsoft publisher tend to be a common problem as we always have so much to say but don’t always have enough room to write it.

Here are some helpful hints to alleviate some of these complications

Overflow text in Microsoft publisher is detected when you click on a text box and a small white box with three dots followed by a capital A is displayed. This tends to happen when text is copied and pasted into a text box that is too small, or when additional information is added in to the middle of a text box.

The most direct way of solving this problem is to simply resize your text box. You can do this by clicking onto your text box, it when then reveal small squares surrounding your selected text box left click and hold one of those small squares and drag it out to your desired direction to increase the size.  If there is not enough room on the page to adjust the text box size, other options such as font size as well as line and paragraph spacing can be adjusted to bring the information back into view.

Using these tools you should be able to fit everything you would like into your publication.

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