Thread: [Solved] Word 2013 Text boxes on everything, can't select across multiple boxes
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Old 10-30-2016, 09:19 PM
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This looks like document that has been converted from PDF using OCR software that formats the document using text boxes. Text boxes are essentially graphical elements.

Such documents are virtually impossible to process as normal documents in Word. You would have to copy the text content from each text box, delete the text box then paste the text back and reformat it to match the original layout. It will take forever.

You need either the original document of the original PDF, and in the case of the latter, some better OCR software that doesn't used text boxes to format e.g. FineReader.
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