Can't expand copied text box with square handles

When copying a text box element to another page the little square handles on the text box won't let me expand the width or height of the text box to accommodate the width/height of the content I'm typing into the box.  (I copy the text element to save time so I don't have to keep resetting the font, size and color. ) The workaround is to change the dimension of the text box using the info Tab and reset the height and width, but this method isn't efficient so if you could fix this bug so the handles will work when text box is copied that would be great. Thanks.