Did this document result from an OCR scan? If so, the "text boxes" may be
frames, in which case Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q will likely remove them, but there's no
telling whether the text will be in the correct order.

If they're really text boxes, the easiest way is probably to convert them to
frames and then remove them in the same way. A macro would probably be the
best approach for doing that, but I don't know how to write it.

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"Alan Smithee Jr." wrote in message
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Is there a way to pull all text out of all text boxes and just have the
complete text of the document flowing without any text boxes.

I have a 350 page document with (guessing) something like 1000 text boxes
filled with text.