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Old 01-05-2022, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Charles Kenyon View Post
Technical following up on Stefan's advice: Text boxes are in a different "story" from ordinary text in a document. Selecting all does not include the text contents of text boxes.

You have to select text inside the text box using the mouse/touchpad.
Indeed, story ranges are kept separate.

In fact, with the insertion point inside a text box (or inside the text of a shape), you can press Ctrl+A to select all the text within that box, if you want. :-)
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