>>>>Hi All.
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>>>>I have a Word document. It has several pages of text. On one page there is a textbox with text in it. Thanks to previous post replies I have managed to access the text and images on the page itself. But how to now copy the text contained in this textbox that is on the page? I cannot see anything obvious under intellisense.
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>>>I think you need to look at the Fields collection. If you have FPA, check the April '04 Answers column. I talked about this topic.
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>>>Tamar
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>>Hi Tamar
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>>Thanks for the info. I have looked at the article as I am a subscriber but oDoc.FormFields.Count returns zero even though there are 3 textboxes in the word document. Where else can I look? Any suggestions welcome.
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>There is some connection with whether the document is protected or not. Make sure to turn protection off before you try to work with this stuff.
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>Tamar

Hi Tamar. I am having no luck :) The document is not protected and UnProtect says it is not protected. Perhaps I am not explaining the problem properly. I create a Word doc and enter some text on a page. Then I can click on the < Insert > menu and select the < Text Box > menu option. I can now draw a rectangluar area on the form within which I can type some more text. Now using automation I can (thanks to the UT) read the text that is around this text box. But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to read the text within this text box.

Any ideas, ...anyone, ...someone, ...anyone out there ... :)