Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#2
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Remove Text Boxes, keep the text
If they're really text boxes, your best bet is a macro, but if in fact
they're frames, then Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q will usually remove them (since a frame is part of paragraph formatting and Ctrl+Q will remove it unless it's defined in the paragraph style). In either case, however, the text box or frame is going to be anchored to an ordinary text paragraph, and the order of the paragraphs when text boxes or frames are removed will depend on the order in which they were anchored. This can mean that the text will become jumbled. If they are in fact text boxes, and if you have Word 2003 or earlier, you have one option that is not available in Word 2007 or 2010. On the Text Box tab of the Format Text Box dialog, there is an option to Convert to Frame. Once you've converted the text box to a frame, you can remove it as above. If you had to do this for every text box, that wouldn't be very helpful, but, as it happens, once you've done one, you can select another and press F4 (Repeat), then another, F4, and so on until you're done. Once all the text boxes have been converted to frames, then Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q will remove them. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "JPh12" wrote in message ... Some Pdf-to-Word/RTF converters produce documents with hundreds of text boxes that each contain a piece of the text. Rather than laboriously extracting their content one box at a time, is there a way to automatically remove all the boxes and keep the text (I'm using Word 2003) ? -- JPh12 |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Remove text boxes | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Remove text boxes | Page Layout | |||
Aligning check boxes and text boxes with regular text | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Can I hide the text boxes when printing? I used text boxes to ove. | Microsoft Word Help | |||
remove all text boxes | New Users |