text box properties not document properties

Office 07 on Windows 7 64 bit.  I ran into a conundrum earlier which has me stumped.  Anyone have an answer?

 

While trouble shooting a textbox wordwrap issue on a template with a user, I discovered that I cannot access the properties of a textbox withing the template on my Win7-64 machine.  Each time I turn off protection, activate the design   mode and attempt to bring up the text box properties, the document properties are displayed.  Same results whether right clicking on any text box and choosing properites or selecting the text box and selecting properties on the developer tab, under design mode.

 

Document behaves as expected in Word 07 on a Win XP system.  Anyone else ran across this?  Is there a solution?

 

One additional note, the document in question is a 07 native format, dotx file.

 

Thanks for your input.

Is this a legacy text form field or a content control?

Are you running any macros on the computer where accessing the Properties fails? Have you tried starting Word in Safe mode?

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