Removing text boxes

[Hylton Boothroyd]

In Jun 2003, in response to the question

John McGhie wrote

I would try saving to Web Page (HTML). Check "Save display
Information Only" (strips out the text box objects). Then re-open in
Word and see if you like the result better.

If you don't, and you have to do a lot of it, you can write
a macro to do it.

Was that in due course the recommended route for Word 2004?

And, if so, is there a script or macro now in the public domain for
removing text boxes in Word 2004?

I ask because the .rtf output from OCR in ReadIris 11 relies, as in
earlier versions, on text boxes for the main shapes.

The reshaping/resizing/refonting of such text within Word itself is like
working in sticky treacle pudding!

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Hylton:

I am familiar with working in sticky treacle pudding: I think you are
understating the difficulty.

I am not aware of anyone putting the macro into the public domain. How
strong is your VBA?

If you have good VBA I can send you something you can adapt.

Otherwise, save as plain text. That will kill the text boxes, and it will
be much quicker to simply reformat the document than to try to adopt the
character-level formatting coming in from ReadIRIS.

Cheers

In Jun 2003, in response to the question


John McGhie wrote


Was that in due course the recommended route for Word 2004?

And, if so, is there a script or macro now in the public domain for
removing text boxes in Word 2004?

I ask because the .rtf output from OCR in ReadIris 11 relies, as in
earlier versions, on text boxes for the main shapes.

The reshaping/resizing/refonting of such text within Word itself is like
working in sticky treacle pudding!

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[Hylton Boothroyd]

John,

Thanks for the offer of something in VBA to adapt. My VBA is
non-existent, and my AppleScripting is still shaky in OS X. So I think
that the plain text reformatting is the way to go.

Hylton


John McGhie wrote