It depends on what these 'locked' items actually are. For starters, you
could try --

SaveAs, selecting Plain Text as the 'Save as type'.

or

Copy the entire document and PasteSpecial into a new document, selecting
'Unformatted text' as the paste type.




"June" wrote in message
...
Sorry folks, but I'm still having trouble with this book.
The printer says his people cannot convert this document
to a pdf file and they don't know why. I am guessing it
is because the book consists of so many different
materials with so many different formats.



I make that assumption because the author copied and
pasted hundreds of quotes from the Internet and each
quote has its own, original format. Then they sent it to
an editor who worked on it and also put it into a 5.5 X 8
format.

They didn't like her work and so sent it to me. I worked
on it and then converted to the same 5.5 X 8 format.

However, I am unable to "unlock" some of the paragraphs,
that is, I cannot block indent or change them in any
way. Some of the footnote titles and chapter titles
cannot be aligned to the left or even justified at all.

The question: is there any way to eliminate all former
formatting from the book, (given all its sources) and
start fresh? I thank you all very much.