After scanning a document into Word, all text is contained within boxes.
How do I delete all text boxes at once from a scanned document rather than
one box at a time?

Are they text boxes or frames? If the latter, you can remove them all with
Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q. If they're text boxes, then, short of a macro, you need to
cut the text in the text box, paste it outside the text box, and then delete
the empty text box.

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"KK" wrote in message
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After scanning a document into Word, all text is contained within boxes.
How do I delete all text boxes at once from a scanned document rather than
one box at a time?

Thanks a bunch! I was able to delete the frames. The only drawback is that
all the indentations and formatting goes with the frames. But other than
that, it worked.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Are they text boxes or frames? If the latter, you can remove them all with
Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q. If they're text boxes, then, short of a macro, you need to
cut the text in the text box, paste it outside the text box, and then delete
the empty text box.

--
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.

"KK" wrote in message
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After scanning a document into Word, all text is contained within boxes.
How do I delete all text boxes at once from a scanned document rather than
one box at a time?

"KK" wrote:

After scanning a document into Word, all text is contained within boxes.
How do I delete all text boxes at once from a scanned document rather than
one box at a time?

Save the document as Text Only, close it, and then re-open it.


On 10/2/06 5:41 AM, in article
, "Olga"
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"KK" wrote:

After scanning a document into Word, all text is contained within boxes.
How do I delete all text boxes at once from a scanned document rather than
one box at a time?

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