Where Is The Text Box Gallery In Word

Mar 09, 2021 Dialog presented in Word 2010 after selecting 'Save Selection to Text Box Gallery' You can also create a new building block programmatically using VBA by defining the storage template, name, type, category, range and insert option using code similar to that shown below.

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How to remove all text boxes in Word?

Text boxes offers users an easy way to manager blocks of text in document. But how to remove them when you formatting a document. This tutorial will show you several ways to get rid of all text boxes from Word document.

1. Save the Text Box as a building block in the Text Boxes gallery with the name Signature. Click on the text box (not inside it). Insert. Text Explore Quick.
2. Word for Office 365 - Autotext Gallery and Styles I am trying to determine if there is a way to create autotext galleries and styles within Word for Office 365. Also, I am trying to determine if the answer to this is yes, is there a way to make them shareable with everyone within the organization since we are on a Business plan?

Manually remove all text boxes one by one
Remove all text boxes with VBA code
Easily remove all text boxes without removing text with Kutools for Word

To insert a text box, switch to the “Insert” tab and click the “Text Box” button. On the drop-down menu, choose the type of the text box you want. Here, we’re going with the “Simple Text Box” option. After insertion, the text box is selected automatically so you can go ahead and type in your text. Then, drag it over. On the Home tab, click the Styles Dialog Box Launcher. The Styles pane appears. In the lower-right corner of the Styles pane, click Options. Under Select styles to show, click All styles.

Manually remove all text boxes one by one

If there are just one or two text boxes you want to remove, you can do as follows:

Step 1: Click inside the text box and press Ctrl+C to copy the text (skip this step if you don’t want to keep the text).

Step 2: Click the border of the text box, press Delete.

Step 3: Repeat step 1 and step 2 until all the undesired text boxes are removed.

Remove all text boxes with VBA code

While there are too many text boxes you want to remove, and you don’t want to keep the text inside either, VBA code will be great helpful. Please use VBA code to remove all text boxes in document as follows:

1. Press Alt+F11 to open the VBA window in Word;

2. Click Module in Insert tab, and insert the VBA code into Module window;

3. Click Run button to apply the VBA code (or press F5);

The VBA code to remove all text boxes without keeping text:

Note: This VBA code can only remove the drawing text boxes.

Easily remove all text boxes with Kutools for Word

You can remove all text boxes but keep their contents or remove both text boxes and their contents in document with Kutools for Word.

Kutools for Word : With more than 100 handy Word add-ins, free to try with no limitation in 60 days.

1. Please apply this utility by clicking Kutools > Remove > Remove All Text Boxes. See screenshot:

2. If you just want to remove the text boxes and keep the text, please check Just remove textbox, and keep the text option in Remove All Text Boxes dialog, then click OK. If you want to remove both the text box and the text, please uncheck it.

3. Then a dialog box is popping up to tell you how many text boxes are removed successfully, please click the OK button.

Then you can see all text boxes with or without contents are removed from the document. See screenshots:

Tip: After removing text boxes from document, blank rows may show up. Then the Remove Empty Paragraph Marks utility of Kutools for Word can help you remove all empty rows from document at the same time. Please click Kutools > Emty Paras > Remove Empty Paragraph Marks. See screenshot:

Then all empty rows are removed from current documemt automatically at the same time:

If you want to have a free trial of this utility, please go to free download the software first, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

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Learn how Microsoft Word 2013 content controls enable a larger range of structured document scenarios.

This topic provides information about changes to content controls in Microsoft Word 2013 and the document scenarios that those changes enable.

Structured documents

Structured documents are documents that control where content can appear on a document, what kind of content can appear in the document, and whether that content can be edited.

Here are some common scenarios for structured content in Microsoft Word:

• A legal firm needs to create documents that contain legal language that should not be changed by the user.

• A business needs to create a proposal cover page where only the title, author, and date are entered by the user.

• A business needs to create invoices where the customer data is included in the invoice at predefined regions.

Using content controls to structure a document

Content controls are Microsoft Word entities that act as containers for specific content in a document. Individual content controls can contain content such as dates, lists, or paragraphs of formatted text. Content controls help you to create rich, structured blocks of content and are designed for use in templates that insert well-defined blocks into your documents, creating structured documents.

Content controls are ideal for creating structured documents because content controls help you fix the position of content, specify the kind of content (for example, a date, a picture, or text), restrict or enable editing, and add semantic meaning to content.

Content controls in Word 2010

The following content controls are available in Word 2010:

• Rich Text

• Plain Text

• Picture

• Building Block Gallery

• Combo Box

• Drop-Down List

• Date

• Checkbox

• Group

Word 2010 content controls enable various potential structured document solutions, but in Word 2013 content controls enable a greater range of scenarios.

Content control improvements in Word 2013

In Word 2013, content controls provide three key improvements: improved visualization, support for XML Mapping for Rich Text content controls, and a new content control for repeating content.

Improved visualization

Word 2013 allows an individual content control to appear in one of three possible states:

• Bounding box

• Start/End tags

• None

Note

If not stated otherwise, this section discusses the visualization of content controls when the document is not viewed in Design Mode.You set the display mode for a content control by using the Show as drop-down list control in the Content Control Properties dialog box.

Figure 1. Content Control Properties dialog box

You can also set the display mode for a content control by using the Word 2013 object model (discussed later in New Word 2013 content control object model members).

Bounding box

The default rendering for content controls in Word 2013 is to preserve the look of content controls as they appear in Word 2007 and Word 2010; that is, as a bounding box. When a content control is set to show as Bounding Box, the display changes depending upon the following user interaction:

• When the content control does not have the focus, no visualization occurs

• On mouse-over, the content control appears as a shaded rectangle

Figure 2. Content control on mouse-over

• When the content control has the focus (when the user chooses the content control), the control appears as a 'bounding box' (with a line around the content and the title showing, if a title has been set)

Figure 3. Content control with focus

Start/End tags

When the content control is set to show as Start/End tag, the tags are displayed regardless of user interaction, and the title never appears; but buttons, such as the Drop-Down List button, appear on mouse over.

Figure 4. Content control set to show as start/end tags

None

When the content control is set to show as None, the content control is not displayed.

Content control colorization

In addition to enabling a different kind of display for a content control, Word 2013 also helps you to set the color for an individual content control. You set the color of a content control by using the Color button in the Content Control Properties dialog box.

You can also set the color of a content control by using the Word 2013 object model (discussed later in New Word 2013 content control object model members).

Figure 5. Content Control Properties dialog box

Support for XML mapping for rich text content controls

Word 2013 helps you to map the content of rich text content controls and document building block content controls to the XML data store. To do this, you set the XML mapping for the content control. You can set this property by using the existing XMLMapping.SetMapping method in the object model. Within the custom XML part, the custom XML is stored as flat Open XML markup converted into a string (by using standard XML encoding), so that it can be stored as a text node in the custom XML part. However, the mapping continues to have the limitation that it can only successfully map to leaf nodes or attributes.

Note

Rich text content controls cannot contain other rich text content controls. If one exists inside of another (for example, because of file format manipulation, copy and paste, and so on), it is unlinked until it is no longer contained inside a mapped rich text control.

For more information about how to set up XML mapping, see the section New Word 2013 content control object model members later in this topic.

Supporting repeating content

In addition to visualization enhancements and support for XML mapping to rich text content controls, Word 2013 also adds a new content control that enables you to repeat content. The repeating section content control repeats the content contained within it, including other content controls.

You insert the repeating section content control around entire paragraphs or table rows. Once the control surrounds a section, you can insert copies of the section above or below the contained section.

Figure 6. Repeating section content control context menu

You can repeat the inserted section by using either the control on the end of the content control (displayed as a button with a plus sign ()) or by choosing a command on the context menu, as shown in Figure 6. The repeated content becomes a separate section of the control that you can assign a title by using the Content Control Properties dialog box.

Figure 7. Assign a section title in the Content Control Properties dialog box

Once you have given the section a title, if you select Allow users to add and remove sections in the Content Control Properties dialog box, users can add or delete the section by name.

Figure 8. Use the repeating section content control context menu to delete a section

When a repeating section content control surrounds other content controls, the enclosed content controls are repeated in each new item; but any such content controls have their contents reset to placeholder text. There are two exceptions where child control contents are preserved:

• When a child control is a repeating section control.

• When a child control is XML-mapped to a node outside the repeating section content control.

Figure 9. Repeating section content control containing child controls before repeat

Figure 10. Repeating section content control containing child controls after repeat

Repeating section content controls around XML-mapped controls

For XML mappings that are contained in a repeating section, Word 2013 maps them as follows.

If the mapping does not intersect with an item in the node set as part of its parent chain, the binding is an 'absolute binding' and shows the same content in all repeating section items.

If the mapping does intersect with an item in the node set as part of its parent chain, the binding is a 'relative binding', and is remapped as follows:

• The absolute binding for the node is determined (flattening out any query expressions)─this should happen on initial mapping

• The axis of the binding that intersects with the node set is removed

• The remainder of the XPath is evaluated relative to the XPath of the repeating section content item

For example, the following mappings might occur:

• The repeating section is mapped to rootnextpath

• The control in the sample item is mapped to rootnextpath[2]baz

• Word matches rootnextpath[2] to an item in the node set

The binding is therefore evaluated as .baz, where the base is the node of the repeating content item.

The following suggestions for working with repeating content controls can help you prevent data loss and avoid frustration.

Working with repeating section content controls that are mapped to XML data

If you insert a repeating section content control that is mapped to XML data, every time your user reopens the document, Word recreates the repeating section items, based on the information in the data store. Even if you save the document, any changes that the user makes in the repeating section items in the document that aren't also mapped into the data store are lost.

To help prevent this from happening, lock the repeating section content control and allow the user to edit only in unlocked child content controls that are mapped to the XML as well.

Binding a repeating section content control to a table

If you want to bind a repeating section content control to a table, insert the table and then the insert repeating section content control, and not the other way around. (Otherwise, you won't be able to select only the table).

Nesting repeating section content controls within a table

Nesting repeating section content controls tightly within a table (for example, when the end of the parent and child repeating section content control is in the same cell) causes the outer repeating section to be deleted when the inner section has an item added or removed.

You can prevent this from happening by adding a paragraph marker between the end of one repeating section content control and the next. To hide the paragraph marker, deselect the Show/Hide option on the Home tab of the ribbon.

Open XML File Format schema additions

The following elements were added to the WordprocessingML Open XML File Format schema.

Table 1. New elements in the WordprocessingML Open XML File Format schema for content controls

New Word 2013 content control object model members

With the new enhancements and additions to content controls in Word 2013, the object model for Word has been updated to allow for programmatic manipulation of the new feature set. In addition, changes have also been made to the underlying Open XML File Format for word processing documents.

The following sections provide more information about the specific object model changes related to each content control enhancement.

Visualization enhancements

Several object model additions are included in Word 2013 for content control visualization enhancements. The following table list new members of the ContentControl object for visualization.

Table 2. New ContentControl object members

The following table lists constants in the new WdContentControlAppearance enumeration.

Table 3. New WdContentControlAppearance enumeration constants

Code sample

The following code sample shows how to create rich text content controls and set visualization programmatically.

XML mapping

No additions were made to the Word 2013 object model to accommodate rich text mapping to XML nodes in the document data store. Instead, use the existing object model to map a rich text content control to an XML node in the document data store. Additionally, no changes were made to the underlying Open XML File Format WordprocessingML schema as part of the newly included rich text content control support specifically for XML mapping.

Code sample

The following code sample shows how to map a rich text content control to an XML node programmatically.

Repeating section content controls represented in the object model

The repeating section content control is available in the object model by using the following additions to the ContentControl object and the new RepeatingSectionItem and RepeatingSectionItemColl objects. Table 4 lists the most important new members of the ContentControl object for repeating section content controls.

Table 4. ContentControl object members

Table 5 lists the most important members of the RepeatingSectionItem object.

Table 5. RepeatingSectionItem object members

Table 6 lists the most important members of the RepeatingSectionItemColl object.

Table 6. RepeatingSectionItemColl object members

Table 7 shows the new member of the WdContentControlType enumeration for repeating section content controls.

Table 7. WdContentControlType enumeration addition

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Code sample

The following code sample shows how to use repeating section content controls programmatically.

Open XML File Format changes for repeating section content controls

The file format representation of a repeating section content control generally uses the same element names, values, and so on as the existing XML markup; however, the <sdt> element representing the outer repeating section container exists in the Word 2013 namespace, to ensure compatibility with earlier versions of Word.

The individual repeating items within the repeating section content control (that surround each individual item) are saved as rich text content controls using the existing WordprocessingML representation. Table 8 lists new elements in the WordprocessingML schema for repeating section content controls.

Table 8. New elements in the WordprocessingML schema for repeating section content controls

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