#How to clear formatting in word control how to#

After typing the page number (30), press Enter.

Go to the View tab and place a check mark on the Navigation Pane. It allows you to view the pages thumbnails, which you can select and delete with the delete key. In MS Word, one of the simplest ways you can select and delete blank or unwanted pages is to use the navigation pane. If you donвЂ™t understand the above simple steps, please keep reading below for further explanations. Word will automatically delete all the pages that were holding the content.

Then press Delete or Backspace to delete all the content.

Select all the content on the page or pages you want to delete.

Without further ado, below is how you can select and delete pages in MS Word. This option involves selecting all the text on the page or pages that you want to delete and then delete by either using the Delete key or Backspace.

Bonus Option: Delete the current page using VBA Macro.

Option 7: Delete specific pages in Word using Macro.

#How to clear formatting in word control how to#

Option 6: How to delete blank pages in Word.

Option 5: Select text using the keyboard.

Option 4: Select and delete pages Using the Mouse.

Option 3: How to select and delete multiple pages.

Option 2: How to select and delete the current page.

The text is placed at the shape anchor point which usually is at the start of a paragraph. Because textboxes are a subset of shapes they will also be processed. The following macro will step through every shape in the document and if a shape contains a textframe, extract the text and delete the shape. The above macros only process textboxes and not other shapes containing text. It would seem that your 'pictures' are rectangles (or perhaps another shape such as a rectangle with rounded corners) containing textframes. However a rectangle to which a textframe has been subsequently added looks and acts the same but is not a textbox. You can then edit the text so that it appears as you want.ДЄ text box is a shape comprising a rectangle with a textframe and text. When this macro is done, you can do a search for 'Textbox start' and you will be at the beginning of text that used to be in the text boxes that are now gone from your document.

' insert the textbox text before the range object ' copy text to string, without last paragraph mark If you prefer to transfer the text from the text boxes to the document, prior to deleting the text box, then a slight modification on the above macro will work: In other words, if a text box is used for placement of text, then the text in that text box is deleted along with the text box itself. You should realize that this macro removes all of the text boxes and their contents. The following macro will quickly remove all text boxes in your document: If you want to get rid of only the text boxes, then the quickest solution is to use a macro. (I told you this was a brute force method.) The obvious drawback to this approach is that the other formatting of the original document is also lost, and you must reformat the entire document. The document text, minus the text boxes, is now in the new document.

In the list of formats, choose Unformatted Text.

Word displays the Paste Special dialog box.

Choose Paste Special from the Edit menu.

One potential solution is a 'brute force' method. What if there are 30, 40, or more text boxes, though? Deleting them individually can quickly get tedious. If there are only one or two text boxes in the document, it is not that difficult to select them and delete them. If you do a lot of work with documents from other people, you may have a need to remove text boxes in those documents.