> 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.
>

Paul,

I am not really a "word" person, however, I have learned a trick that
takes very little time to get rid of all text boxes, pictures, etc from
an article from a web site or in this case a word.doc.  While in your
word document, simply hit control A to highlight everything.  Copy it
and paste it into Notepad.  Since Notepad will only accept text, every
thing else is stripped off.  Then hit Control A while in the new
notepad.txt and copy it back into a new word.doc.  It will then have
text only.  This takes only a few seconds for the entire document.

Hope this helps!
Norm DeBoer


Thanks Norm,

That works for one box. For some strange reason I have dozens
of boxes. I am unable to high lite them all. I have given up
as it is so hard to process text in Word. The search and replace
mode is limited. I have gone back to a Wordstar clone running
on Linux called joe. It can search and replace line feeds and
carriage returns. It also has a hex editor. Something old WordStar
did not. I am also sure Emacs can do it as well but I am not up to speed
on Emacs. I learned WordStar about 30 years ago. I would love to have
a real programmable text editor. Emacs can probably do that too
but I don't need it that often to take the time to learn it as
it is rather arcane.