[snip] From: "Roger" <rogerbid@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:54:37 -0400 (EDT) Hi Everyone, A colleague has kindly converted a PDF file to an editable Word document for me, but the text is now in numerous Frames and as a result will be very difficult to edit. I have hit the same snag when scanning documents for OCR and had the same thing happen. It has not usually been too much of a problem, more a minor irritation. The document I now have before me however consists of 15 pages and at a glance each page comprises about 15 - 20 frames. What I would like to do is highlight a block of text and remove all the frames in one go and be left with the text so that I can maniluate it at will. If anyone can offer any advice I shall be mighty grateful, Thanks, Roger [/snip] Irritating isn't it ... What I do is simply cut everything and past it into a notepad document, then cut the notpad text back into a new Word document ... You loose ALL of your formatting, etc., but at least those dumb textboxes are out of there. Thinking about it more, you could cut the text from the textbox into a new Word document to build the new "untexted boxed" document instead of notepad. I think it should work. Larry ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************