That is essentially what the macro I posted does. I have modified it
slightly to cater for documents with more than one frame
Select the frame and run the macro. The text box created has the default
text box parameters.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
Sub ConvertFrameToTextBox()
Selection.Frames.Delete
Selection.CreateTextbox
End Sub
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Pauba wrote:
Graham :
First, thank you for your help.
But I am not sure I fully understood you.
My situation is the following - There is a macro that copies text
inside textboxes and places this text in a table. (See macro at
http://www.necco.ca/dv/macros/word/textboxes_out_in.txt)
I need to do the same with text inside frames. I thought that the
easiest way would be to just convert Frames to Text Boxes. It seems
it is not that easy. Is there a way to modify the macro above to find
and copy the text in each of the frames (instead in each of the text
boxes)? Thanks again,
Pauba
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The short answer is no. However you can delete the frame and replace
it with a text box. A macro containing the following lines will do
that if you select the text the frame contains first.
ActiveDocument.Frames.Delete
Selection.CreateTextbox
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
A text box is in the drawing layer and thus is not seen by some Word
functions acting in the text layer. A frame is in the text layer of
the document.
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My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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My web site www.gmayor.com
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Pauba wrote:
Hello guys:
Let's say you have a text box.
If you right-click it and open the "Format text box" window. Then,
you go to the "Text box" tab, and there you can "Convert to Frame."
The question is, if I have a Frame, can I convert it to a text box?
I could not find any way to do it... not even through a macro.
Thanks for your help.
Pauba