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Removing Text boxes without deleting text
I have used OCR software to convert a large PDF to Word. The conversion
works fairly well, but when I open the new Word document, the text has been placed within text boxes. Is there a way to remove these text boxes without deleting the text within them? In other words, I want the text to show up in the document as if I typed it in normally rather than having the text appear in text boxes. When I delete the text boxes, it also deletes the text. I appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks |
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Answer: Removing Text boxes without deleting text
If you have multiple text boxes that you want to remove, you can use the "Select Objects" tool to select them all at once. Here's how:
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There's a good chance that the boxes are actually frames rather than text
boxes. If so, pressing Ctrl+A (to select the entire document) and Ctrl+Q (to reset paragraph formatting to the default) will remove them, though the order of the text may be higgledy-piggledy, depending on how the frames were anchored. If they actually are text boxes, you can use Format | Text Box | Text Box to convert a single text box to a frame, then select other text boxes in turn and use F4 (repeat) to convert them, then remove the frames as described above. The only other alternative, I'm afraid, is to select the text in the text box, Copy, Paste outside the text box, and then delete the text box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "green" wrote in message ... I have used OCR software to convert a large PDF to Word. The conversion works fairly well, but when I open the new Word document, the text has been placed within text boxes. Is there a way to remove these text boxes without deleting the text within them? In other words, I want the text to show up in the document as if I typed it in normally rather than having the text appear in text boxes. When I delete the text boxes, it also deletes the text. I appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks |
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Removing Text boxes without deleting text
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
The only other alternative, I'm afraid, is to select the text in the text box, Copy, Paste outside the text box, and then delete the text box. In such circumstances it may be quicker to simply use the OCR to re-convert to plain text.Either way there is going to be a lot of re-formatting. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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