Pages - delete text box
Am I being really dim? I want to delete a text box from my document, I can't figure it out. It just says 'text' inside it. It doesn't show when I print the page, but it's bugging me. Thanks.
What do you get when you touch/select the text? I am getting a pop-up that reads: "select/select all/paste/copy style". When I "select all" the text is then highlighted in light blue with the pop-op options now reading: "cut/copy/paste/copy style". If I choose/touch "select all" the text disappears.
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Deleting Text Box, but not text, in Pages '09
I use Readiris to scan documents, which then open in Word. All text is placed in text boxes (sometimes line by line). When I import the Word docs into Pages, I have literally hundreds of text boxes, when really all I want is to work with the text. Is there a way to delete the text boxes without deleting the text in them?
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--[SCRIPT extractRawTextFromPages]
Open a Pages document
run the script.
You will get on the Desktop a text file entitled
"extractedRawText.txt"
containing the document's raw text.
Yvan KOENIG (Vallauris, FRANCE)
2009/07/03 for AW Draw documents
2009/08/07 Adapted for Pages
on run
tell application "Pages"
activate
tell document 1
set rawText to ""
try
set rawText to "Main Layer" & return & body text & return
end try
set textBoxes to get text boxes
if textBoxes is not {} then
repeat with i from 1 to count of textBoxes
set rawText to rawText & "text block #" & i & return & (get object text of item i of textBoxes) & return & return
end repeat
end if
end tell -- document
end tell -- Appleworks
if rawText is not "" then
set nomDuRapport to "extractedRawText.txt"
set p2d to path to desktop
set p2r to (p2d as text) & nomDuRapport
tell application "System Events"
if exists (file p2r) then delete (file p2r)
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--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (Vallauris, FRANCE vendredi 7 août 2009 21:45:45) -
PowerPoint using macro to delete text boxes after printing
Hi,
We created custom shows in Powerpoint and are running a macro to insert temporary page numbers on the slides before printing. The issue is that I need to remove the page numbers after printing. I'm a novice at VBA so I'm sure there is an easy
solution, but nothing I've tried so far has been successful. The code is displayed below for your reference. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Sub PrintCustomShow()
' Change this number to specify your starting slide number.
Const lStartNum As Long = 1
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Dim strShowToPrint As String, strPrompt As String
Dim strTitle As String, strDefault As String
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If ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows.Count _
< 1 Then
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strPrompt = "You have no custom shows defined!"
' Display the message box and stop the macro.
MsgBox strPrompt, vbCritical
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Dim oPlaceHolder As Shape
Dim bFound As Boolean: bFound = False
For Each oPlaceHolder In _
ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.Shapes.Placeholders
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If oPlaceHolder.PlaceholderFormat.Type = _
ppPlaceholderSlideNumber Then
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rect.l = oPlaceHolder.Left
rect.t = oPlaceHolder.Top
rect.w = oPlaceHolder.Width
rect.h = oPlaceHolder.Height
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oPlaceHolder.PickUp
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Exit For
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' If not found, exit the macro.
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MsgBox "Your master slide does not contain a slide number " _
& "placeholder. Add a " & vbCrLf & "slide number placeholder" _
& " and run the macro again.", vbCritical
End
End If
' Set up the string for the input box.
strPrompt = "Type the name of the custom show you want to print." _
& vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Custom Show List" & vbCrLf _
& "==============" & vbCrLf
' This is the title of the input box.
strTitle = "Print Custom Show"
' Use the first defined show as the default.
strDefault = _
ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows(1).Name
' Obtain the names of all custom slide shows.
Dim oCustomShow As NamedSlideShow
For Each oCustomShow In _
ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows
strPrompt = strPrompt & oCustomShow.Name & vbCrLf
Next oCustomShow
Dim bMatch As Boolean: bMatch = False
' Loop until a named show is matched or user clicks Cancel.
While (bMatch = False)
' Display the input box that prompts the user to type in
' the slide show they want to print.
strShowToPrint = InputBox(strPrompt, strTitle, strDefault)
' See if user clicked Cancel.
If strShowToPrint = "" Then
End
End If
' Make sure the return value of the input box is a valid name.
For Each oCustomShow In _
ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.NamedSlideShows
' See if the show is in the NamedSlideShows collection.
If strShowToPrint = oCustomShow.Name Then
bMatch = True
' Leave the For loop, because a match was found.
Exit For
End If
' No match was found.
bMatch = False
Next oCustomShow
Wend
' Get the array of slide IDs used in the show.
Dim vShowSlideIDs As Variant
With ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings
vShowSlideIDs = .NamedSlideShows(strShowToPrint).SlideIDs
End With
' Loop through the slides and turn off page numbering.
Dim vSlideID As Variant
Dim oSlide As Slide
Dim Info() As SlideInfo
' Make room in the array.
ReDim Preserve Info(UBound(vShowSlideIDs) - 1)
' Save the current background printing setting and
' then turn background printing off.
Dim bBackgroundPrinting As Boolean
bBackgroundPrinting = _
ActivePresentation.PrintOptions.PrintInBackground
ActivePresentation.PrintOptions.PrintInBackground = msoFalse
' Loop through every slide in the custom show.
Dim x As Long: x = 0
For Each vSlideID In vShowSlideIDs
' The first element in the array is zero and not used.
If vSlideID <> 0 Then
' Add slide ID to the array.
Info(x).ID = CLng(vSlideID)
' Get a reference to the slide.
Set oSlide = ActivePresentation.Slides.FindBySlideID(vSlideID)
' Store the visible state of the page number.
Info(x).IsVisible = oSlide.HeadersFooters.SlideNumber.Visible
' Turn off page numbering, if needed.
If Info(x).IsVisible = True Then
oSlide.HeadersFooters.SlideNumber.Visible = msoFalse
End If
' Create a text box and add a temporary page number in it.
Dim oShape As Shape
Set oShape = _
oSlide.Shapes.AddTextbox(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _
rect.l, rect.t, _
rect.w, rect.h)
' Apply the formatting used for the slide number placeholder to
' the text box you just created.
oShape.Apply
' Add the page number text to the text box.
oShape.TextFrame.TextRange = CStr(x + lStartNum)
' Increment the array element positon.
x = x + 1
End If
Next vSlideID
' Print the custom show. NOTE: You must turn background printing off.
With ActivePresentation
With .PrintOptions
.RangeType = ppPrintNamedSlideShow
.SlideShowName = strShowToPrint
End With
.PrintOut
End With
' Restore the slide information.
For x = 0 To UBound(Info)
' Get a reference to the slide.
Set oSlide = ActivePresentation.Slides.FindBySlideID(Info(x).ID)
oSlide.HeadersFooters.SlideNumber.Visible = Info(x).IsVisible
Next x
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ActivePresentation.PrintOptions.PrintInBackground = _
bBackgroundPrinting
End SubHi hlolrich,
According to the description, you want to remove the shapes which created after you print the presentaion.
I suggest that you name the shape you added with some rule, then we can delete thease shapes via the name rule.
And here is a sample that you delete the shapes which name contains the
myShape words on the first slide for your reference:
Sub deleteShapes()
For Each aShape In Application.ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes
If InStr(aShape.Name, "myShape") Then
aShape.Delete
End If
Next aShape
End Sub
Also you can learn more about PowerPoint developing from link below:
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You are using a Word Processing template. WP templates have content flowing from page to page. As one page fills up, a new one is created. If some of that text is deleted or displaced the pages retract.
When you combine text, invisibles like word spaces, returns, tabs, page breaks etc with objects that have text wrap set, the mix can behave in an apparent odd fashion.
Start with showing where everything is:
Menu > View > Show Layout/Invisibles
Start with getting rid of any excess returns you may have used to "position" things. Next cut and paste objects like textboxes, shapes, charts and tables "Inline" ie in as part of the text. If necessary also turn off text wrap on objects or minimise it so that doesn't push text completely out of the way.
Insert Section breaks in the Text where you want fixed breaks in the layout these will provide separation between layout on different pages.
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If i open an existing PAGES doc, duplicate and rename it, then i delete all existing text that i have written, only then i can type in at the doc.
To illustrate my problem, attached is a pic from my Macbook screen
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Yes, the text in the oval object had a drop shadow (the oval object itself did not). I removed the drop shadow from the text, but the image file icon stayed in the right corner of the oval object. I deleted the text and then the image file icon disappeared. But as soon as I typed text again inside the oval object (not even pasting the previous text) the image file icon appeared again. I deleted the oval object entirely and simply typed the text inside the main text box itself. The image file icon that was attached to that oval object is gone (along with the oval object).
Still the image file icon is attached to the main text box, though. I again tried to uncheck the Enable as hyperlink (same process as described in first posting) with that oval object gone, but when I "save" again it reverts to a hyperlink.
Next I tried this: I copied the text from the problem text box and pasted it into another text box (outside of the problem one). Still in the new text box with the pasted text, the image file icon shows in the upper right corner.
I also removed all the drop shadow features from this main text box (there was one more, on some words typed in the main text box), but it is still showing as an image.
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The link you provided for "Web Safe Fonts" is returning this: "The server at www.ampsoft.net is taking too long to respond." I'm using Arial and Georgia (Georgia only on the menu and header text) in the site, and I had verified before designing the site that these are web safe, so I had thought they were.
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I am trying to create a poster - in Keynote - transferring it to PDF then to JPEG so I can print it - and while I like the background in this Keynote theme (leather book) I can't seem to remove the artwork that is positioned between the two text boxes. Does anyone know how??? Can it even be done?
I somehow ended up on creating a new master slide. I can FINALLY access the artwork - it has a box around it of x's - but I can't seem to do anything. Delete doesn't work. Trying to shrink the box doesn't work. I'm not getting a dialog box when I click on it that is specific to the x'ed area. It pertains to the full background page. I'm obviously missing something - the fact that I have never been in Keynote before may have something to do with it! :-)
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How do I remove text boxes from Pages
I have an awful time with Pages on my lap top. I am used to Appleworks 6.2 on my older desktop (PowerMac G4 / OS 10.4.11). If I specify a US letter page I get that in Appleworks, it is then 8.1/2" x 11", without running into pre-existing formats or other similar distractions. I can immediately type a neat business letter.
Not with Pages. On my MacBookAir, with Pages 4.3 and OS 10.8.4, I can type alright, but when I want to print what I typed, only a small part of what I typed shows up in in Print Preview of my typed page. After a bit of backtracking, I notice a blue-lined rectangle on my typed page containing the portion of my typing that appeared in that Print Preview. It is apparently a self-formed "text box", that was not a part of my blank template page and was not inserted by me while or just before I typed.
I did not find any way to delete the edges of that text box. The "delete" option under the pull down edit menu is blanked out. If I click on the "Text box " symbol in the menu bar it does not let me switch off the text box, but instead gives me another text box inside the first one! I suppose this is to allow user to print only a single keyboard stroke of the entire letter. The "Inspector" seems to have no options to set text boxes.
Pages "Help" Menu has nothing of how to delete a text box, or how to prevent it in the first place from screwing up what you have typed in such manner that it becomes unprintable.
Similarly a small rectangular box formed on both the top and the bottom of each page (which could be a space reserved for a header or footer), but again I do not use these on my business letters, and they appear self-formed by Pages, and I would like to know how to prevent them, or delete them.
In other words I like to get a blank page to start with, which will only set up and type what "I, THE USER" enter on my keyboard.
Can anybody tell me how to this with Pages?
(PS. I can do it with even with Thunderbird !)1. Open a blank Word Processing template (they are listed in the Template Chooser sidebar), you have opened a Layout template that requires Textboxes for you to type into.
2. To select a Textbox hold down the command key and click on its edge or lassoo it, then hit delete.
3. If you don't want Headers or Footers, uncheck them in the Document Inspector
4. Download the Pages09_UserGUide.pdf from under the Help menu and familiarise yourself with Pages' basics. Also look around your Menus and Inspectors which are laid out logically from left to right from broad to details.
I suggest you click inside your textbox first go command a and copy the contents before you delete it and then paste that into a new Word Processing template.
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