I have Office 2007 Ultimate and am using onenote to take handwritten class
notes on a tablet pc. I also record my lectures using the utility built into
onenote 2007. I create a new page for each lecture with the page size set to
"auto". I am running Windows Vista Business for the OS. I have a centrino duo
tablet pc with 2gb of ram.

Often (about 1 out of 3 lectures) an oversized container will be made
surrounding some text that is far down the page. The notes will usually be
just a few lines, but the container rises above the top of the notes it
bounds, and even above the top of the page. It is so large that new
whitespace is created above the page title. You don't notice the oversized
container until you mouse over the container using the text tool. When
selecting the container using the text tool, there appears a large amount of
highlighting within the container. This highlighting is much smaller than the
handwritten text and appears to highlight phantom text (since there is
nothing written in the margin that the oversized container forces upon the
paste, you can see that it is not highlighting what has been written).

Onenote slows to a crawl when viewing a page that has this problem. It makes
scrolling through the page impossible, as there is a few seconds lag from
when initially scrolling to when the program responds. The only way to scroll
through text is to click above or below the scroll bar to page up/down (or
using the page up/down keys)

The only way I've found to fix this problem is:
1) select small batches of text using the lasso tool.
2) resizing the text, then resizing it back to that desired (which seems to
release it from the oversized container)
3) moving the text to some new whitespace (either by dragging if far away
from any other text or to another page)
4) moving the text back to the desired location.
5) confirm that the oversized container has disappeared, This is done by
first checking that the top margin has disappeared and then mousing through
the page with the text tool to ensure there are no oversized containers still
existing.

Caveats with even this method.
Sometimes this does not work and the surrounding text is incorporated.
This leads to all of the text needing to be manipulated in the above manner.
The procedure requires ALL of the text to be, bit by bit, (i) resized, (ii)
moved to a new locaiton without replacing to the original document and until
the original document is empty (otherwise an oversized may still result)
(iii) and bit by bit moved back to the original location.
Also, when moving text around in this manner, onenote frequently crashes
and restarts.
Also, sometimes this results in overlapping text that occurs outside of
the text you are currently copying/pasting. You don't notice this until
reviewing the rest of the document. And, when this happens during or prior to
onenote crashing, there is no way to undo changes to undo the overlap. The
overlap is also, impossible to separate. You may be successful in deciphering
the words written and rewriting manually, though I have been unsuccessful in
this.
I have even resorted to exporting as a pdf and screen clipping the text
into a onenote page.

Any help in preventing this occurrence in the future, or suggestions of a
more efficient way to correct this problem when it does occur, will be
immensely appreciated.