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Cannot see a frame
I have a Word rtf file with a page whose text goes from the top of the
page to the bottom of the page, overrunning headers well as footer. It is a table. By using CrossEyes, I could see that there were a few frames in there, screwing things up *this is a scanned file, and I think frames were automatically introduced). By converting the table to text,, and then converting to table again, the frames showed up, and I could delete them. Now, the questions: - how can you find frames in a Word file without having to guess where they are? - is there any way to search for, e.g., the word "Frame" in CrossEyes. It seems to make so much sense, but I have not found a search function in it. Hope someone has a few answers. Regards, Hans L -- |
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Cannot see a frame
I can't comment on CrossEyes, which I'm not familiar with. However, in
Word, you can display text boundaries: On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the View tab. Select the "Text boundaries" option, and click OK. Word will show dotted lines around any area that has text (or a paragraph mark, ¶) in it. Thay way, it'll be easier to identify frames (and text boxes) without borders. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Hans L" wrote: I have a Word rtf file with a page whose text goes from the top of the page to the bottom of the page, overrunning headers well as footer. It is a table. By using CrossEyes, I could see that there were a few frames in there, screwing things up *this is a scanned file, and I think frames were automatically introduced). By converting the table to text,, and then converting to table again, the frames showed up, and I could delete them. Now, the questions: - how can you find frames in a Word file without having to guess where they are? - is there any way to search for, e.g., the word "Frame" in CrossEyes. It seems to make so much sense, but I have not found a search function in it. Hope someone has a few answers. Regards, Hans L -- |
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Cannot see a frame
Thanks, Stefan. However, that did not help me finding the frames, a
few of which seems to be embedded in the table. Any tip? Hans L Stefan Blom wrote: I can't comment on CrossEyes, which I'm not familiar with. However, in Word, you can display text boundaries: On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the View tab. Select the "Text boundaries" option, and click OK. Word will show dotted lines around any area that has text (or a paragraph mark, 6) in it. Thay way, it'll be easier to identify frames (and text boxes) without borders. -- |
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Cannot see a frame
Hi Hans,
Thanks, Stefan. However, that did not help me finding the frames, a few of which seems to be embedded in the table. Any tip? Frames cannot be embedded in tables. Nor can textboxes. But textboxes can be formatted to be in front of or behind a table. What makes you think the "frames" are embedded in the table? If these are textboxes, rather than frames, display the Drawing toolbar and klick the button with the big white arrow. Now drage from one corner of the page diagonallly down to the other corner (change the zoom so you can do this easily). Any drawing object (including textboxes) should be marked by little boxes around the sides. I can't comment on CrossEyes, which I'm not familiar with. However, in Word, you can display text boundaries: On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the View tab. Select the "Text boundaries" option, and click OK. Word will show dotted lines around any area that has text (or a paragraph mark, 6) in it. Thay way, it'll be easier to identify frames (and text boxes) without borders. 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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Cannot see a frame
Hello Cindy:
Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote: Hi Hans, Thanks, Stefan. However, that did not help me finding the frames, a few of which seems to be embedded in the table. Any tip? Frames cannot be embedded in tables. Nor can textboxes. But textboxes can be formatted to be in front of or behind a table. What makes you think the "frames" are embedded in the table? Because they were only visible after I had converted the table to text. But I was obviously using the wrong terminology. If these are textboxes, rather than frames, display the Drawing toolbar and klick the button with the big white arrow. Now drage from one corner of the page diagonallly down to the other corner (change the zoom so you can do this easily). Any drawing object (including textboxes) should be marked by little boxes around the sides. CrossEyes showed that they were frames and when I right-clicked on them, I got the menu with something like "Modify frame", and when I clicked it, I could delete the frames. The effect these frames have is that they somehow prevents the page-breaking of the tables that cover them. That is how I know kinda' that there probably are frames around. The tables start at the very top of the page, covering any header that is there, and goes to the bottom of the page, and it is not possible to scroll down to the bottom of the tables. Regards, Hans L |
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Hi Hans,
OK, if this is Word 2002 or 2003 (you haven't said) then a table can be formatted to go over a frame. They still aren't embedded, but they can be superimposed. It sounds like the problem is that, in these documents, "floating" tables aren't *allowed* to break to the next page. If this is Word 2002, then as I recall they simply can't. If it's Word 2003, it's a setting in Tools/Options/Compatibility that's making the tables behave like in Word 2002. I'm guessing these RTF files were generated by a scanning software. And this uses the tables and frames to recreate the original page layout. Such documents are usually incredibly difficult to edit because the scanning software is only concerned with making a "snapshot", not creating an editable, Word document. However, that did not help me finding the frames, a few of which seems to be embedded in the table. Any tip? Frames cannot be embedded in tables. Nor can textboxes. But textboxes can be formatted to be in front of or behind a table. What makes you think the "frames" are embedded in the table? Because they were only visible after I had converted the table to text. But I was obviously using the wrong terminology. If these are textboxes, rather than frames, display the Drawing toolbar and klick the button with the big white arrow. Now drage from one corner of the page diagonallly down to the other corner (change the zoom so you can do this easily). Any drawing object (including textboxes) should be marked by little boxes around the sides. CrossEyes showed that they were frames and when I right-clicked on them, I got the menu with something like "Modify frame", and when I clicked it, I could delete the frames. The effect these frames have is that they somehow prevents the page-breaking of the tables that cover them. That is how I know kinda' that there probably are frames around. The tables start at the very top of the page, covering any header that is there, and goes to the bottom of the page, and it is not possible to scroll down to the bottom of the tables. 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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Cindy and everyone else, I really have to apologize for not saying that
I use Word 2000. But you are right, Cindy, that these tables are the results of scanning. I guess I will just continue doing what I did, namely, when I see something suspect, I'll convert the table to text, scroll down to find the frames or text boxes, delete them (but not the text), and then convert to table again. Thank you all for your help. Regards, Hans L Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote: Hi Hans, OK, if this is Word 2002 or 2003 (you haven't said) then a table can be formatted to go over a frame. They still aren't embedded, but they can be superimposed. It sounds like the problem is that, in these documents, "floating" tables aren't allowed to break to the next page. If this is Word 2002, then as I recall they simply can't. If it's Word 2003, it's a setting in Tools/Options/Compatibility that's making the tables behave like in Word 2002. I'm guessing these RTF files were generated by a scanning software. And this uses the tables and frames to recreate the original page layout. Such documents are usually incredibly difficult to edit because the scanning software is only concerned with making a "snapshot", not creating an editable, Word document. However, that did not help me finding the frames, a few of which seems to be embedded in the table. Any tip? Frames cannot be embedded in tables. Nor can textboxes. But textboxes can be formatted to be in front of or behind a table. What makes you think the "frames" are embedded in the table? Because they were only visible after I had converted the table to text. But I was obviously using the wrong terminology. If these are textboxes, rather than frames, display the Drawing toolbar and klick the button with the big white arrow. Now drage from one corner of the page diagonallly down to the other corner (change the zoom so you can do this easily). Any drawing object (including textboxes) should be marked by little boxes around the sides. CrossEyes showed that they were frames and when I right-clicked on them, I got the menu with something like "Modify frame", and when I clicked it, I could delete the frames. The effect these frames have is that they somehow prevents the page-breaking of the tables that cover them. That is how I know kinda' that there probably are frames around. The tables start at the very top of the page, covering any header that is there, and goes to the bottom of the page, and it is not possible to scroll down to the bottom of the tables. 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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