Flow text from one text box to another
![Text flow in Word 2016 Text flow in Word 2016](/images/tips/175/1.png)
To make the text flow, you create a link between the text boxes. Follow these steps:
1. Insert the text boxes that you will link and position them where you want them. Place all the content in the first text box. Most likely, only the first part of it will appear in the text box.
2. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Text group, click the Create Link button:
![Text group in Word 2016 Text group in Word 2016](/images/tips/175/2_2016.png)
Word changes the mouse pointer to a pouring jug:
- In the first text box:
- In other text box displays a prompt telling you to move text here:
![Other text box in Word 2016 Other text box in Word 2016](/images/tips/175/3.png)
3. Click the next text box. Word creates the link and flows the text from the first text box.
4. Choose the second text box, and then repeat the linking process as needed.
![text boxes text boxes](/images/tips/175/4.png)
To break a link, select a linked text box, and then under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Text group, click the Break Link button:
![Break link in Word 2016 Break link in Word 2016](/images/tips/175/5_2016.png)
See also this tip in French: Flux de texte d'une zone de texte à une autre.