Globally remove anchored frames

[Dana]

Using MS Word 2004 in OS 10.4.10, I need to be able to globally remove
anchored text frames. I need to copy the text from within the frames,
insert the text back into the document and then delete the frame, over
and over. I have not found any way to simply find/replace the text
within these anchored frames and delete the frames without manually
"Go to Next Field", select the text in the frame, move it to
clipboard, paste it back onto a para return in the text flow and then
select and delete the frame. Anyone know of a way to help automate
this? I'd also like to be able to select all tables in a document and
convert them to text in one step....any ideas here? Thanks.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Dana:

You can do this in VBA, but it's not a macro you can "record".

You would have to write it, and it may take you a couple of days.

If you have that kind of time to invest, then post back and we will talk you
through it.

If you do post back, I need to know more about the structure of your
document. Generically, we would write a "For each ... Next" loop that would
walk through the document storing the text out of each text box and writing
it back to the document.

I need to know whether you need to keep the formatting of the text or
whether just the Unicode is sufficient? Are these scanned documents you are
processing?

Cheers

Using MS Word 2004 in OS 10.4.10, I need to be able to globally remove
anchored text frames. I need to copy the text from within the frames,
insert the text back into the document and then delete the frame, over
and over. I have not found any way to simply find/replace the text
within these anchored frames and delete the frames without manually
"Go to Next Field", select the text in the frame, move it to
clipboard, paste it back onto a para return in the text flow and then
select and delete the frame. Anyone know of a way to help automate
this? I'd also like to be able to select all tables in a document and
convert them to text in one step....any ideas here? Thanks.

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