copy and pasting word doc foxydiva 6/11/2007 1:04:03 AM Hi I saved a copy of my resume on a floppy disc. Iam trying to copy and paste it online and when i go to highlight the resume a box with dots surrounds some of the text and it just highlights that specific area. What are those boxes and how do i get rid of them? When the border of the box pops up and i put the arrow on the border it turns into a 4 headed arrow. I can also make it bigger or smaller

Re: copy and pasting word doc "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 6/11/2007 3:22:47 AM For starters, do not work with the document from the floppy disk. First copy it to your hard disk and open it from there. The box with dots surrounding some of the text might mean that those parts are inserted inside a table cell. From the Tables menu, select Show grid lines to confirm that. If that is the case, you can select each of the affected parts of the text and from the Tables menu, use the Convert Table to Text facility. Another alternative is that the affected text might be located inside a text box. If that is the case, you could select it and copy it to the clipboard, then delete the text box and then paste the test back into the document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "foxydiva" <foxydiva[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C81FCD5D-0634-410A-979E-D635834E9EC6[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi I saved a copy of my resume on a floppy disc. Iam trying to copy and > paste > it online and when i go to highlight the resume a box with dots surrounds > some of the text and it just highlights that specific area. What are those > boxes and how do i get rid of them? When the border of the box pops up and > i > put the arrow on the border it turns into a 4 headed arrow. I can also > make > it bigger or smaller

Re: copy and pasting word doc Stan Brown <the_stan_brown[ at ]fastmail.fm> 6/11/2007 3:24:32 AM Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:04:03 -0700 from foxydiva <foxydiva[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>: [Quoted Text] > Hi I saved a copy of my resume on a floppy disc. Iam trying to copy and paste > it online and when i go to highlight the resume a box with dots surrounds > some of the text and it just highlights that specific area. I don't understand your description, but if "copy and paste" is really what you want then here's how to do it: 1. Open the document in word. 2. Click anywhere in the document, and press Ctrl-A. This will highlight everything. 3. Press Ctrl-C. This will copy the entire text to the clipboard. 4. In the Web page, click into the appropriate box and press Ctrl-V. But... Before you do all that, check the company's requirements carefully. They might want plain text, or on the other hand they might want the Word file rather than just the contents. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/