Remove all frames from document

MT

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Jun 27, 2003, 2:42:15 PM6/27/03

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Hi,

In Word 95 there use to be an option to remove all the frames from a
document. I can't find this feature in Word 2000 or Word XP. Is it still
there as at the moment I'm having to copy all the text out of a frame and
pasting it into a new document which takes ages!

Thanks
Mark

Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Jun 27, 2003, 5:02:05 PM6/27/03

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If the frame is not part of the paragraph style (which is highly unlikely),
Select All (Ctrl+A) and ResetPara (Ctrl+Q). This will remove the frames. Or
you could use the macro Graham Mayor posted earlier in that regard:

> ActiveDocument.Frames.Delete
>
> see http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/installing_macro.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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MT

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Jun 29, 2003, 12:43:02 PM6/29/03

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Suzanne,

Thanks but using Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Q doesnt seem to do anything .. the frames
are still there. I have also pasted the line into a macro as per Graham's
instructions but that doesnt do anything either.

I still cant seem to work out how to delete all the frames in a document and
retain the text. I can delete frames individually losing the text within
them but thats it with Word 2000 and Word XP. As I said in my original post
I can do this with Word 95 but cant find the option to do it in the new
versions.

Thanks
Mark

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MT

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Jun 30, 2003, 2:53:48 PM6/30/03

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MT

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Jun 30, 2003, 3:11:16 PM6/30/03

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Jun 30, 2003, 3:07:42 PM6/30/03

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Are you sure they're frames and not text boxes?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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MT

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Jun 30, 2003, 4:00:18 PM6/30/03

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I tried on a blank document and use the frames tool added a couple of
frames - but still no luck.

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Klaus Linke

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Jun 30, 2003, 8:53:59 PM6/30/03

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Hi MT,

Do you remember how you did it in Word95? Usually, Word doesn't loose any
functionality in newer versions.

You might try the following macro:
Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To ActiveDocument.Frames.Count
ActiveDocument.Frames(1).Range.Select
Selection.Cut
ActiveDocument.Frames(1).Delete
Selection.Paste
Next i

But since you said that Graham's macro did "nothing", I doubt you have
frames at all...

Klaus

Klaus Linke

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Jun 30, 2003, 9:11:17 PM6/30/03

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"MT" <post...@netware6.net> wrote:
> I tried on a blank document and use the frames tool added a
> couple of frames - but still no luck.

Hi MT,

Do you perhaps mean a HTML frameset (Menu "Format > Frames")?
I don't think they were available in Word95, and have never used them.

You might try to open the HTML file as a text file and delete all the
<FRAMESET...> and <FRAME ...> tags; or you could copy/paste the contents of
the frames into a new document.

I know of no one-step method to get rid of them (while keeping the text),
though perhaps someone in a vba newsgroup could write a macro to do the
job.

Regards,
Klaus