Normally, you cannot delete all the text within text boxes. If you select all the text boxes in a document and press the Del key, the text boxes themselves will be deleted, along with the text inside. If you press Ctrl+A (or choose Select All from the Edit menu) and press Del, everything in your document disappears.
If your text boxes are linked, however, you can delete all the text within all linked text boxes by following these steps:
If text boxes are not linked, you will need a macro to delete the text in each text box, one at a time.
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2016-08-20 23:47:48
Mary Lu Strange
I read the information about the text boxes above. What if one wants to delete the text boxes, but keep the text, is it possible?
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