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How to get rid of frames, but keep the text in the same place? - scanned document
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Problems with a scanned document being created with unwanted/unusable frames... And trying to edit it in Microsoft Word 2000. How do I get rid of frames in a document, but leave the text (and spaces) exactly where they are on the page? If the frames were tables, I could just select the option to convert the table to text. I have never ran into frames like this before - except on .html documents - with this ISN'T. I scanned a document with my HP6100. If I save it as text, it completely looses the formatting, and puts some of the text on non-sequential lines. If I save it as RTF, it keeps the format, but puts everything in frames - various sized rectangulare frames all over the page. I loaded the .rtf in MS Word 2000. The only other option is ..pdf - but I don't have sofware to edit a .pdf. The problem is the HP OCR software decided the text was two different font sizes (it isn't). If I select text within a frame to change the font, the larger text doesn't fit in the boundary and some of it moves to the next line, and the frame grows larger. The margins within the frame actually need widened, but I can't figure out how to do that - and even if I did, there are about 20 different frames on the page - and there will be many pages. I just need to be able to get rid of the frames and keep the text - where it is. *** I just want spaces, letters, numbers, and line feeds - with no other formatting. Sounds simple, but the HP OCR software won't output it that way. Any help greatly appreciated. |
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How to get rid of frames, but keep the text in the same place? - scanned document
Problems with a scanned document being created with unwanted/unusable
frames... And trying to edit it in Microsoft Word 2000. How do I get rid of frames in a document, but leave the text (and spaces) exactly where they are on the page? If the frames were tables, I could just select the option to convert the table to text. I have never ran into frames like this before - except on .html documents - with this ISN'T. There is no way to remove the frames and keep the text where you see it. If you right click the frame, choose the Format entry, you can remove the frame... But the text will go to where ever the frame is "anchored". Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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How to get rid of frames, but keep the text in the same place? - scanned document
Select the entire document and press Ctrl+Q (ResetPara). Assuming that the
frame is not part of the paragraph style, this will remove the frame. It will also, however, remove any other direct paragraph formatting, and, as Cindy points out, the text in the frame will be inserted above the paragraph to which it is anchored, which will be chancy. If you want to remove the frames as she suggests, you can double-click one frame border to open the Frame dialog, select Remove Frame, then select the next frame and press F4 (Repeat), continuing till all the frames have been removed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Hi, Problems with a scanned document being created with unwanted/unusable frames... And trying to edit it in Microsoft Word 2000. How do I get rid of frames in a document, but leave the text (and spaces) exactly where they are on the page? If the frames were tables, I could just select the option to convert the table to text. I have never ran into frames like this before - except on .html documents - with this ISN'T. I scanned a document with my HP6100. If I save it as text, it completely looses the formatting, and puts some of the text on non-sequential lines. If I save it as RTF, it keeps the format, but puts everything in frames - various sized rectangulare frames all over the page. I loaded the .rtf in MS Word 2000. The only other option is .pdf - but I don't have sofware to edit a .pdf. The problem is the HP OCR software decided the text was two different font sizes (it isn't). If I select text within a frame to change the font, the larger text doesn't fit in the boundary and some of it moves to the next line, and the frame grows larger. The margins within the frame actually need widened, but I can't figure out how to do that - and even if I did, there are about 20 different frames on the page - and there will be many pages. I just need to be able to get rid of the frames and keep the text - where it is. *** I just want spaces, letters, numbers, and line feeds - with no other formatting. Sounds simple, but the HP OCR software won't output it that way. Any help greatly appreciated. |
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