That is not what happens in my 3.5: It shows "a Text for bla, bla" alright, 
but a toggle gives me a long list of the individual letters of the text as 
if Text was nothing but a collection. I do not see the runs while an 
inspector does show them. If the runs show up on your image, we have a 
bizarre problem.

At 04:01 PM 9/28/03, you wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:29:19 -0700 Frits Swinkels <frits.swinkels at shaw.ca> 
>wrote:
> >I have another bug with the same cause. Text does not display itself
> >properly in ObjectExplorer; it shows the string but not the IV runs.
>
>If I understand what you are saying, that is by design. When I explore 
>'abc' asText, the top element in the explorer says:
>
>         a Text for 'abc'
>
>When I toggle that open, I can see the string and the runs. I can further 
>toggle open the runs if I am interested in what they contain. How does 
>this diverge from what you expected?
>
>Cheers,
>Bob