Tech. Tip: MS WORD Remove frames (text boxes) from document, after OCR or save as rtf from pdf (works fine with Crystal Report exports too)

If you ever needed to remove frames and still maintain formatting use this tip found at http://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=21220.0

Worked perfectly for the problem I needed to solve for a client...

"Removing frames (text boxes) from a word document, after OCR or saving as rtf from pdf document

You saved or scanned a document with OCR software like Abbyy FineReader or OmniPage Pro? You saved as rtf a PDF document and the resultant word document, contains multiple frames?

Frames make the document very hard edit because all text is placed inside frames. We need to remove those frames if we want to edit the document.

How do we do that?

If you do not care about formatting you do this:

1.
—Open the file which has frames in MS Word
—Save the file as a Plain text file.
—Open the new text file you have just saved in Notepad or WordPad or some other text editor.
—Now Select all the text by pressing Ctrl+A, Copy and paste that into a New MS Word file. Then Save it with any name you want. Frames are gone.

If you do care about formatting:

2.
—Copy everything in the Word document, paste all the text into WordPad, copy all the text in the WordPad document, and paste it back into the Word document.

Or

3.
—Select the entire document by pressing Ctrl+A, and then press Ctrl+Q. This will set every paragraph back to its default condition."