Thanks Graham,
What you say is revealing, and rather disconcerting to me. But none of my individual text boxes could on its own be too taxing for a word processing system that for many decades has held itself out to millions upon millions of ordinary users as offering the capacity to do what I am asking it to. Mine are simple text boxes, each and every one of them. Microsoft says that text boxes can be moved, so surely that must be not only possible but WELL within Word's very ordinary capacity to do so. Surely Word, as a word processing system, could not market itself as such for all its length of time in existence if it could not cope with the simplicity of what I am asking it to do. Surely it is ME who must be doing something wrong or not doing something I should be doing.
"Allboxedin"