Text boxes - searching for them

[Kimmi]

Is there a way of searching for text boxes in Word. Or some other method of
locating text boxes in a long document. Some of the text boxes in this
particular document have no text and have no border. We are using Word 2000.
I've tried using Go to object, but nothing there seems to work.

Many thanks

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Kimmi,

Is there a way of searching for text boxes in Word. Or some other method of
locating text boxes in a long document. Some of the text boxes in this
particular document have no text and have no border. We are using Word 2000.

There are three or four things in Word that are called "text boxes". Which kind
do you mean? From the Drawing toolbar? Have you tried to "go to" a Graphic?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Kimmi]

Hi Cindy
The text boxes I'm looking for are ones that Microsoft Word calls Text Box,
so either inserting from Insert menu, or from the drawing toolbar. I've
tried locating using Go to Graphic but that didn't work. Beginning to think
it's not possible in Word but maybe possible using code.

Thanks

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Kimmi,

The text boxes I'm looking for are ones that Microsoft Word calls Text Box,
so either inserting from Insert menu, or from the drawing toolbar. I've
tried locating using Go to Graphic but that didn't work. Beginning to think
it's not possible in Word but maybe possible using code.

Without code, you can click the "Select objects" arrow (at the left of the
Drawing toolbar), then with the mouse draw a rectangle across the page. That
will select all the drawing objects that fall completely within the rectangle.

Using code, you can loop the Shapes collection of the document and test whether
the Shape is of type Textbox. The code can be rather tricky, however, depending
on exactly how you want to work, due to the way Word manages Shapes in a
document.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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