> Do we have any Word people on here?
     >
     > How do I get rid of the little boxes around sections
     > of text?
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     > Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.


   Dear Paul:

   Did you make a lot of tables and then type text in the cells?

   If you made tables, click on Table > Select > Table
   That selects the entire table.  It turns black.
   Then click on Format > Borders and Shading.
   The Borders and Shading dialogue box appears.
   Make sure the Borders tab is showing.
   On the right side of the box, you will see a square with lines in it.
   Just above that box it says:  "Preview.  Click on diagram below or use
   buttons to apply borders"
   Click on the lines in the Preview box to make all the lines go away.
   Click on OK.
   The black that the table turned, goes away.
   Now, when you look at the document on the computer, you will see FAINT
   lines.  That just tells you that a table is there.  When you PRINT the
   document, the lines will not print.

   Does that help?

   Les Nordman :-)

   I used an OCR program to scan and old article of mine.
   I then saved it in Word doc file format. I loaded it into
   word and this is how it came out??? They are not tables or at least
   they should not be tables. I am looking for plain text.

   Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.


Do it again and save as plain text not word doc.

Dan

That works but the dang OCR software puts in an extra cr lf everywhere.
I have to load it into joe and search and replace cr lf with nothing :)

I just went to Fry's to see what they had in the way of new
OCR software and they had nothing. Anybody know of a good OCR
package?

I am getting ready to resign my self into scanning 30 columns.
The OCR cannot handle columns to plain text. It makes a mishmash out of that.
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