> 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.

Paul Lamar

Hi Paul -
In dire  emergency I have been known to open pre - XML  word documents
in a text editor & delete the control charecters - this is a load of
symbols at the  beginning & end of the file - a bit like when you open
a binary executable file by mistake.  This will leave you plain text
hopefully.

BTW  I did this  in the days when an internal hard disk was a big deal
& the smart private citizen bought Amiga or Apple !

Bryan In england.


Yes we used to use the sector editor built into Xtree Gold for that stuff.
When you get down to that level you really know what is going on :)
Now  MS keeps you in the dark like mushroom and feeds you sh*t :)

BTW Bryan are you in London?