Windows 10: Rotate handle doesn't appear on text boxes in Microsoft 365 Word - how do I fix this?

I have a 64-bit desktop PC. On it I run Microsoft Word for Microsoft 365 MSO 16.0.14228.20200 32-bit. I don't know whether or not there's a 64-bit version of Microsoft 365 - presumably there is - but this is what Microsoft gave me when I subscribed to Microsoft 365. For what it's worth, I'm running under Microsoft Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 OS Build 19042.1110. For some reason, when I create a text box - whether the 'regular' kind or one I draw - it has no rotate handle. Can anybody help me rectify this problem? Thanks for any help.

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Self-adjusting/linked content Text Boxes in Word?

Extending text boxes: I had no idea, so gave it a go: it seems that if you set the box to autofit: rt-click>Format shape>text box, then setting {autofit} on and {wrap text} off appears to work.



I have wondered about linked text boxes in Powerpoint for some time, but never bothered to work out if it were possible. But I have had a go in Word (in my case 2010), and there is a rather awkward way: with the cursor on a blank space, start by creating a caption (Refs>Insert caption):



I don't think it matters what sort of caption (figure, table etc), so I picked figure - but excluded the 'label' of 'figure', so all I see is a '1'. Then add some text (in my case xxx). Now this may seem bizarre, because it is a caption to nothing (or maybe the blank space that preceded it, I am not sure). You then end up with '1xxxx' appearing on the page. I added a line with 'space' to separate it from the next bit:

Now create a cross-reference to this caption:



and the text will appear again:




Now this is the fun (?) part: edit the caption (in blue) and remove the unwanted figure number - you can tweak the text (my 'xxxx', but don't work from the RHS or it appears you are working outside the caption:



(note the longer text box, while I was at it). But the cross-reference is not changed - to update it, select it and press F9:




Voila! You can update all references by selecting the whiole document (CTRL-A) and hitting F9. You can put the cross-reference inside a text box, but then it becomes a bit fussy about updating, and doesn't work with the 'all-at-once' method.

hth, Martin (this has been fun! - now to try Powerpoint...).

 

Windows doesn`t start. Authomatic repair doesn`t work.

Thanks again!!

I`m sorry I had not noticed that the text on the picture was in spanish. It says that windows has replaced some damaged clusters in "name" file and "directory". Then, at the end "an unspecified error occurred (75736e6a726e6c2e 4f6)".

I`ll do it and I`ll be updating this thread when I have the report.

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I ran SeaTools. These are the results:




Does it mean my HDD is useless?

 

text copied from youtube does not appear same in microsoft word

Appears as Arial Unicode MS here:




similarly here: