it sounds like you are working with a Text Box. Select the text in side the 'box' (cntrl-A) and copy (cntrl-c). now delete the box and set your cursor where you want the text and paste (cntrl-v). ----- Original Message ----- From: MDRD To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 8:25 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Very off topic, sorry
Thanks Bill I am not sure what to call them, I guess they scanned the page of a book into Word and each paragraph in some kind of object, you can edit the text and resize it but it is not a regular paragraph. I will check for some OCR on our home printer / scanner Marc From: Bill Downall Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 8:16 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Very off topic, sorry Marc, Is it a picture? An embedded bitmap or jpeg or tif file? If so, you have two options: 1) get somebody to type it in. 2) use OCR (optical character recognition) software, then edit the result because there will be mistakes. Often, a multi-function printer installation CD includes free OCR software. Some brands are ABBYY, IRIS, OmniPage, TextBridge. Googling should help. Bill On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:08 AM, MDRD <[email protected]> wrote: I have a Word file that appears to contain scanned pages of text that I need to convert to a regular Word file with text. When you click on a paragraph it gets outlined like an object, you can edit the text inside the paragraph and re size it just like a picture.. We are trying to get this book republished and the new publisher wants it in a regular Word file. Thanks for any help, sorry to ask Marc
