answer:You may have already discovered this, but in MS Word, if you set the text flow ( I think that is the name) property to Behind Text or In Front of Text, it makes things a lot easer. Then you can drag boxes around at will without affecting regular text and other text boxes. That makes it tolerable for page layout. Not enough for daily use, but it might get you through the project. Or if you have Microsoft Access, the report design screen is pretty good. You could ignore the database aspect of the program and use it simply for page layout.