I'm in the publishing print view and I've created a row of three text boxes with some content that I want to copy & paste to make many rows of that down the page.

Here's what I'm doing:

1. select the three text boxes
2. copy
3. click elsewhere on the page, and paste


4. move the newly pasted text boxes to the position where i want them to be

at this point, when I release the mouse button after moving the text boxes, Word collapses the the left and right box onto the center so they are all overlapping, instead of maintaining the same relative positions they had while I dragged them.

I recently upgraded to Office 2011 for mac and I don't think this ever happened to me with the 2003 version I had before.

Help?