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deleting all format commands
I'm working with a long (150 page) gnarly document that was scanned in as a
word document. I'm using Word 2003. How do I delete all formatting in this original document. Most specifically, all column commands and all page breaks? |
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:22:00 -0700, LindaG.
wrote: I'm working with a long (150 page) gnarly document that was scanned in as a word document. I'm using Word 2003. How do I delete all formatting in this original document. Most specifically, all column commands and all page breaks? In the Replace dialog, click the More button. Click in the Find What box and then click the Special button. Select "Manual Page Break" and click OK. This puts the code ^m in the Find What box. Leave the Replace With box blank, and click Replace All. That will remove all manual page breaks. Select the entire document (Ctrl+A), go to the Columns dialog, and choose "One". To remove all direct (non-style) paragraph formatting, you can select everything and press Ctrl+A. To remove all direct font formatting, select everything and press Ctrl+spacebar. If you just want to flatten the whole document to Normal style, select all and press Ctrl+Shift+N. There's probably another problem that's not so easily dealt with. Scanning/OCR software often puts blocks of text into text boxes to try to maintain absolute position. Although it's possible to write a macro to get the text out of the boxes, it often isn't possible for the macro to know where to put the text, so it winds up as a worse jumble than the original. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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A couple of additions to what Jay wrote:
To remove all direct (non-style) paragraph formatting, you can select everything and press Ctrl+A. Should be Ctrl+Q (Ctrl+A to Select All first). Scanning/OCR software often puts blocks of text into text boxes to try to maintain absolute position. If you're lucky, the software will use frames instead of text boxes, and Ctrl+Q will remove those. The main problem then becomes that the order of the text when the frames are removed will reflect the order of the paragraphs to which the frames were anchored. -- 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:22:00 -0700, LindaG. wrote: I'm working with a long (150 page) gnarly document that was scanned in as a word document. I'm using Word 2003. How do I delete all formatting in this original document. Most specifically, all column commands and all page breaks? In the Replace dialog, click the More button. Click in the Find What box and then click the Special button. Select "Manual Page Break" and click OK. This puts the code ^m in the Find What box. Leave the Replace With box blank, and click Replace All. That will remove all manual page breaks. Select the entire document (Ctrl+A), go to the Columns dialog, and choose "One". To remove all direct (non-style) paragraph formatting, you can select everything and press Ctrl+A. To remove all direct font formatting, select everything and press Ctrl+spacebar. If you just want to flatten the whole document to Normal style, select all and press Ctrl+Shift+N. There's probably another problem that's not so easily dealt with. Scanning/OCR software often puts blocks of text into text boxes to try to maintain absolute position. Although it's possible to write a macro to get the text out of the boxes, it often isn't possible for the macro to know where to put the text, so it winds up as a worse jumble than the original. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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thank you jay and suzanne ... this was helpful. back to going crazy now!
"Jay Freedman" wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:22:00 -0700, LindaG. wrote: I'm working with a long (150 page) gnarly document that was scanned in as a word document. I'm using Word 2003. How do I delete all formatting in this original document. Most specifically, all column commands and all page breaks? In the Replace dialog, click the More button. Click in the Find What box and then click the Special button. Select "Manual Page Break" and click OK. This puts the code ^m in the Find What box. Leave the Replace With box blank, and click Replace All. That will remove all manual page breaks. Select the entire document (Ctrl+A), go to the Columns dialog, and choose "One". To remove all direct (non-style) paragraph formatting, you can select everything and press Ctrl+A. To remove all direct font formatting, select everything and press Ctrl+spacebar. If you just want to flatten the whole document to Normal style, select all and press Ctrl+Shift+N. There's probably another problem that's not so easily dealt with. Scanning/OCR software often puts blocks of text into text boxes to try to maintain absolute position. Although it's possible to write a macro to get the text out of the boxes, it often isn't possible for the macro to know where to put the text, so it winds up as a worse jumble than the original. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
A couple of additions to what Jay wrote: To remove all direct (non-style) paragraph formatting, you can select everything and press Ctrl+A. Should be Ctrl+Q (Ctrl+A to Select All first). Yes, thanks. A is close to Q on the keyboard, and I already had A on my mind... |
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