Deleting Text Boxes without Deleting Text.

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I have performed an OCR on a PDF to produce a Word Document. The conversion
worked very well, but each page of the text is in a text box. Is there a way
to remove the text box without deleting any of the text? This document
cannot have text boxes because we are loading it into a program that cannot
recognize text boxes. For now, I am individually copying the text from each
of the boxes, pasting it outside of the text box, and deleting the text box.
This seems really inefficient. Is there a better/faster way?

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could convert the text boxes to frames and then remove the frames
(Ctrl+Q will likely accomplish that). If you convert one text box to a frame
(Format Text Box | Text Box | Convert to Frame), you should then be able to
immediately select another and F4 to repeat; continue till you've done them
all.

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

 

[Graham Mayor]

The probability is that they are already frames. A number of OCR software
applications format documents using frames. This makes the document look
pretty, but useless for reformatting without a lot of work. You really need
better OCR software. Though no OCR software is perfect. Finereader 9 can
format your OCR document without those irritating frames.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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