At 13:03 04/07/2015 -0400, Maurice Howe wrote:
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Dave Mainwaring wrote:
I have a document filled with frames. How do I get rid of the
frames and copy the text inside the frames?
*_If the formatting is unimportant (or easily restored), select
(CTRL-A) the entire document (or a page or paragraph if that's all
that needs fixing), then copy it to the CLIPBOARD & delete it
(CTRL-X), then open NOTEPAD and paste the data (CTRL-V).
*-Now select the NOTEPAD (CTRL-A), copy the data to the CLIPBOARD
(CTRL-C), move cursor to original now-empty document and paste the
data into it (using (CTRL-V).
*-Now apply formatting and you're done.
You write as if the original problem was about formatting, but it
isn't: it's about extracting text from within multiple frames. And
Ctrl+A doesn't select the entire document when you have frames: it
selects either all of one frame (and nothing else) or all of the text
except that in frames. That's the problem.
In any case, you don't need to stage material via another application
(such as Windows Notepad) in order to remove formatting: you just
need to use Edit | Paste Special (or Ctrl+Shift+V) and "Unformatted
text" instead of ordinary Paste.
Brian Barker
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