It should only be necessary to do that if you're trying to do something that requires access to the parent Section; usually, textboxes can be manipulated in whatever Section's header they're found in, regardless of the .LinkToPrevious attribute. Naturally, that affects all other Sections containing the same textbox. A real 'gotcha' would be textboxes that show up in STYLEREF or REF fields - in which case you really do need to manipulate them at the source.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]