delete table & leave the text?

[Gunther Gloop]

I have a document that is full of individual table cells.

Is there a way to 'delete' tables/cells in Word, but leave the data within
to 'fall back into' the main page?
(kinda like 'pulling the tablecloth from under the milk-jug')

Any help appreciated,

-Kevin.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can use Table | Convert Table to Text, but, unless you use a macro,
you'll have to do it on each table individually.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Gunther Gloop]

You can use Table | Convert Table to Text, but, unless you use a
macro, you'll have to do it on each table individually.

I've just realised these are *text boxes* rather than tables. The convert
doesn't work I'm afraid. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Any other suggestions on how to remove these text-boxes, placing the text
into the _document itself_?

(note: the texbox outlines are already invisible so thats not the problem. I
want to be able to have a text document with no text boxes... but keeping
the text that's already in there.)

-Kevin.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Again, a pretty much manual process, but if you do it in two big steps, you
can F4 your way through. Select a text box, right-click, and choose Format
Text Box. On the Text Box tab, click the button for Convert to Frame...
You'll get a warning message, but say yes anyway, then OK out. With any
luck, selecting another text box and pressing F4 will also convert it to a
frame. If not, record a short macro to perform these steps.

Once all the text boxes are frames, just Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q. Ctrl+Q resets the
paragraph formatting to the default for the style, which does not include a
frame, effectively removing the frame. If you don't want to reset all the
paragraphs in the document, then select each frame in turn and Ctrl+Q (or
F4). Note that if this is a scanned and OCR'd doc, there's a good chance
what you have is frames to begin with, not text boxes.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Gunther Gloop]

Again, a pretty much manual process, but if you do it in two big
steps, you can F4 your way through. Select a text box, right-click,
and choose Format Text Box. On the Text Box tab, click the button for
Convert to Frame... You'll get a warning message, but say yes anyway,
then OK out. With any luck, selecting another text box and pressing
F4 will also convert it to a frame. If not, record a short macro to
perform these steps.

Once all the text boxes are frames, just Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q. Ctrl+Q
resets the paragraph formatting to the default for the style, which
does not include a frame, effectively removing the frame. If you
don't want to reset all the paragraphs in the document, then select
each frame in turn and Ctrl+Q (or F4). Note that if this is a scanned
and OCR'd doc, there's a good chance what you have is frames to begin
with, not text boxes.

Thanks a lot Suzanne. That does work.
My only problem now is having to explain to others how to do it. ...I'm
having difficulty at the CTRL-Q stage above, where all text is jumping to
the top of the document once the frame is removed.
I assume this something to do with the formatting for the current style. I
could handle this personally, but explaining to others will be...
complicated. :^./

-Kevin.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The frame is going to be anchored to a text paragraph; where it jumps when
you "unframe" it will depend on where that paragraph is. If you have several
paragraphs, you can drag the anchor to a different one, the order of the
anchors will determine the resulting order of the paragraphs.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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