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Old December 30th, 2006, 07:33 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
LurfysMa
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Default How to delete a text object?

I can delete most objects by selecting them and pressing the Delete
key.

If I do that with a text object, the Delete key deletes a character in
the text inside the object. I have found that I can right-click the
object and then select Delete Object or I can press the Detele key
while holding down the Shift key.

Is there a setting that will make Publisher select just the object
with the first click and the text with a second click? Visio works
this way and it's much easier for me -- maybe because I'm usdd to it.


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Old December 30th, 2006, 09:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Don Schmidt
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Default How to delete a text object?

Be sure you do a single click on the text object and when pressing the
delete key should take it out.


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"LurfysMa" wrote in message
...
I can delete most objects by selecting them and pressing the Delete
key.

If I do that with a text object, the Delete key deletes a character in
the text inside the object. I have found that I can right-click the
object and then select Delete Object or I can press the Detele key
while holding down the Shift key.

Is there a setting that will make Publisher select just the object
with the first click and the text with a second click? Visio works
this way and it's much easier for me -- maybe because I'm usdd to it.


--
Running Publisher 2K SP-3 in Office 2K
OS: Win 2K SP-4 (5.00.2195)



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Old December 30th, 2006, 11:34 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
LurfysMa
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Default How to delete a text object?

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:22:44 -0800, "Don Schmidt" Don Retired
wrote:

Be sure you do a single click on the text object and when pressing the
delete key should take it out.


Doesn't work on my machine. A single click on a text object selects
the object and places the cursor inside at the start of the text. The
Delete key deletes the character at the cursor position.

I am running Publisher 2000, if that makes any difference.


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Old December 30th, 2006, 01:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Mary Sauer
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Default How to delete a text object?

Control + X

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"LurfysMa" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:22:44 -0800, "Don Schmidt" Don Retired
wrote:

Be sure you do a single click on the text object and when pressing the
delete key should take it out.


Doesn't work on my machine. A single click on a text object selects
the object and places the cursor inside at the start of the text. The
Delete key deletes the character at the cursor position.

I am running Publisher 2000, if that makes any difference.


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Old December 30th, 2006, 02:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Ed Bennett
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Default How to delete a text object?

Mary Sauer wrote:
Control + X


Note that this is the Cut command, this will replace any data stored on
your Clipboard.

To delete a text box, you need to have the BOX selected, not the text
within the box (which is what you seem to be describing). Click the
border of the box, and the box should become selected (the shaded
outline may change, I can't remember whether it did in Pub2000). Then
hit Delete.

This distinction is also important when moving text boxes.

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Old December 30th, 2006, 05:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Don Schmidt
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Default How to delete a text object?

Ed,

Old brain caused an error in my advice to delete a text box. Should have
stated to use Cntrl+Shift+X (Publisher 2000)


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"Ed Bennett" wrote in message
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Mary Sauer wrote:
Control + X


Note that this is the Cut command, this will replace any data stored on
your Clipboard.

To delete a text box, you need to have the BOX selected, not the text
within the box (which is what you seem to be describing). Click the border
of the box, and the box should become selected (the shaded outline may
change, I can't remember whether it did in Pub2000). Then hit Delete.

This distinction is also important when moving text boxes.

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http://ed.mvps.org



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Old December 30th, 2006, 06:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
LurfysMa
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Default How to delete a text object?

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:31:36 +0000, Ed Bennett
wrote:

Mary Sauer wrote:
Control + X


Note that this is the Cut command, this will replace any data stored on
your Clipboard.


Yes, not an ideal solution.

To delete a text box, you need to have the BOX selected, not the text
within the box (which is what you seem to be describing). Click the
border of the box, and the box should become selected (the shaded
outline may change, I can't remember whether it did in Pub2000). Then
hit Delete.


I tried that. There is no way to select the object that I can find. As
I move the cursor close to the object, the pointer turned into a
moving van while the tip is still 1/8" away. If I then click, the
text, not the object, is selected.

If this is NOT how it works on later versions of Publisher, then I
won't worry about it as we will be upgrading soon.

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Old December 30th, 2006, 06:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
LurfysMa
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Default How to delete a text object?

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:13:33 -0800, LurfysMa
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:31:36 +0000, Ed Bennett
wrote:

To delete a text box, you need to have the BOX selected, not the text
within the box (which is what you seem to be describing). Click the
border of the box, and the box should become selected (the shaded
outline may change, I can't remember whether it did in Pub2000). Then
hit Delete.


I tried that. There is no way to select the object that I can find. As
I move the cursor close to the object, the pointer turned into a
moving van while the tip is still 1/8" away. If I then click, the
text, not the object, is selected.


While I was experimenting with Ctrl-x and Ctrl-Shift-x, I discovered
that pasting the text object also leaves the text, not the object
selected. If I click on a text object and then press Ctrl-C and then
Ctrl-V, the object will be replicated and the text will be selected.
Pressing the Delete key will delete the first letter in the text.

So Ctrl-C and Delete are not consistent. I think Pub2000 is broken.

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Old December 30th, 2006, 08:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Ed Bennett
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Default How to delete a text object?

LurfysMa wrote:
I tried that. There is no way to select the object that I can find. As
I move the cursor close to the object, the pointer turned into a
moving van while the tip is still 1/8" away. If I then click, the
text, not the object, is selected.


Seems my memory is failing - Publisher 2000 must have behaved
differently (I have vague memories of this coming back to me now).
Publisher 2002 behaves more consistently in this regard.

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Old December 30th, 2006, 11:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Steve in NC
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Default How to delete a text object?

LurfysMa wrote:
I can delete most objects by selecting them and pressing the Delete
key.

If I do that with a text object, the Delete key deletes a character in
the text inside the object. I have found that I can right-click the
object and then select Delete Object or I can press the Detele key
while holding down the Shift key.

Is there a setting that will make Publisher select just the object
with the first click and the text with a second click? Visio works
this way and it's much easier for me -- maybe because I'm usdd to it.



I hold down the shift key and then hit the delete key.

Works to delete the text box for me
 




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