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I believe this could be as simple as Ctrl+A to select all. Cut. Edit-Paste special, unformatted text.<br />
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However, there's no guarantee where the textbox text will *drop* into your text.<br />
It might be pretty painless.
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I believe this could be as simple as Ctrl+A to select all. Cut. Edit-Paste special, unformatted text.

However, there's no guarantee where the textbox text will *drop* into your text.
It might be pretty painless.

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Thanks for your comment. &nbsp;However, your solution works with text that is not in the text boxes. &nbsp;A Ctrl+A or &quot;Select All&quot; does not select the Text Boxes or the text inside the Text Box.
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Thanks for your comment.  However, your solution works with text that is not in the text boxes.  A Ctrl+A or "Select All" does not select the Text Boxes or the text inside the Text Box.

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Thanks<br />
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Both Solutions Work
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Please follow the instructions for &quot;Closing Questions&quot; under the HELP button at the top of any EE page, LRayBishop. &nbsp;If you have resolved your problem, then please finalize the question.<br />
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Thanks!
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Please follow the instructions for "Closing Questions" under the HELP button at the top of any EE page, LRayBishop.  If you have resolved your problem, then please finalize the question.

Thanks!

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LRayBishop<br />
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Anything new here? &nbsp;Has this problem been resolved?
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LRayBishop

Anything new here?  Has this problem been resolved?

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I am scanning &amp;&nbsp;importing documents into word 2003. &nbsp;Much of the text being imported is winding up in text boxes. &nbsp;I would like to remove the text boxes &amp;&nbsp;use the unadulterated text in the document<br />
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Ray Bishop
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I am scanning & importing documents into word 2003.  Much of the text being imported is winding up in text boxes.  I would like to remove the text boxes & use the unadulterated text in the document

Ray Bishop

convert textbox to text in word 2003

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.