By behaving strangely, I mean that when I try to move that text up to the preceding page, it fights me. Let's say that the text is on page 3. Page 2 is half empty. If I place the cursor below the text on page 2 and press Delete, nothing happens. It doesn't pull the text up across the page boundary. If I place the cursor at the start of the top line and press backspace I can get one line at a time to move up to page 2, but the rest of the lines don't follow. Each line has to be moved individually. If I cut/copy the lines and then paste them into page 2, the squares also get pasted. If I put the cursor at the top of the page and try to make some blank lines, each one also has that square. In fact any edits done to the document from there until the end will also have those squares. It's like some mode has been set and I can't turn it off.
The only way I was able to get rid of them was copy each line of text (but not the linefeeds) into a new document, delete that entire section from the original document and then copy the text back and manually reformat it. Even though I found a work-around, I'm still curious why this happened.
I asked someone with an older copy of Word to look at the same document and it behaved the same for her. She didn't know why either.
To be clear, I'm not a word processing expert. I've never used MS Word or any other big, full-featured word processor. My word processing experience is mostly limited to using ProWrite and Final Copy on the Amiga (well, if you don't count Speedscript and Kwik-Write on the C64), and even then, for my meager uses, I mostly just used them as glorified text editors with some formatting options.
