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How to merge text boxes in a large imported document
Have taken the plunge and taken out a subscription for Office 2016, but am having trouble with Word.
My large document, about 450 pages in .docx format, opens okay but is not very editable. It has both text and images throughout. The text flow is interrupted by broken sentences and paragraphs. In trying to edit the text, it becomes a series of text boxes that don't cover the original paragraphs. Each text box finishes with a carriage return. Following advice found within the forum {select text box, place curser near edge to show cross hairs*and double click} does not allow the carriage return to be deleted, although other editing can be done. Is there any way to delete the carriage returns or any way these separate text boxes can be combined? Or, is there some way to merge all the text? |
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From what and how was your document imported? Your description suggests it's a low-end PDF conversion.
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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Thanks for the response.
The document was created as a pdf file in MacPages and converted to .docx file in Adobe Acrobat. Since posting the query I imported the .pdf file into Word, which did the conversion to .docx. The problem with text boxes has disappeared, but the fonts have changed and will need correcting. The images are displaced a little, so will have to bone up on image selection and moving. Will see how we go. |
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Conversion from another program's files into Word is never perfect and is often more trouble than it is worth. There are times when I simply copy the text and redo formatting in Word.
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