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remove all text boxes
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. |
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Alan,
Convert to text is no problem. A smooth flow may be problematic. See the explaination by Jay Freedman below: Sub ScratchMacro() 'Convert TextBoxes to plain text. Dim oShp As Shape Dim i As Integer For Each oShp In ActiveDocument.Shapes If oShp.Type = msoTextBox Then oShp.ConvertToFrame Next oShp For i = ActiveDocument.Frames.Count To 1 Step -1 With ActiveDocument.Frames(i) .Borders.Enable = False With .Shading .Texture = wdTextureNone .ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic .BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic End With .Delete End With Next End Sub Jay says: Now the wrinkle... Every graphic object in Word's drawing layer (e.g., a textbox) has an "anchor", a spot in the regular text to which it's attached. (You can see the anchor symbol in the left margin of Page Layout view if you go to Tools Options View and check "Object anchors", then select a textbox or floating picture.) When you convert the textbox to a frame and then delete the frame, the text inside gets dumped into the regular text at the anchor position. Good luck. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Alan Smithee Jr. wrote: 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. |
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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. -- 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. "Alan Smithee Jr." wrote in message ... 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. |
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