AboutSuzanne S. Barnhill Expertise I've been using Word for Windows since version 2.0 (1992), and the more I learn
about it, the more I realize how little I know. But I may know a few things
that you don't, and I'll help if I can. I answer many questions every day in
Microsoft's peer support newsgroups and as a result have been awarded the
MVP (Most Valuable Professional) designation by Microsoft Corporation. You
may be able to find the answer to your question at the Word MVPs' FAQ site or at my own Word FAQ site, so please check those first! Please, no questions about VBA (macros), Registry editing, networks, or complex merges, as I have no experience with these aspects of Word, nor do I have any experience with Word for the Mac.
Experience I have a master's degree in classics (Latin), which is surprisingly helpful, though I no longer teach. The things I am proudest of: Having raised two children to maturity, both Merit Scholars, both college graduates (one a philosophy major!), one Phi Beta Kappa (from Harvard!); having been made a Paul Harris Fellow by my Rotary club; having been designated a Microsoft MVP.
Education/Credentials B.A. (Latin), Agnes Scott College, 1966; M.A. (Classics), Emory University, 1972.
Question QUESTION: I'm sorry... I found the option to find and replace all fields, so that's okay now. And I'm manually doing the rest, only instead of copy and paste, I saved a copy of the file and am deleting everything I don't want to keep. It would help if I could search and replace on all tables (replace with nothing) :)
ANSWER: I'm sorry it took so long to work out my answer, but I think you'll find that my Replace method is faster than copying and pasting manually.
Although there's no code to search for tables using the Replace dialog, you can use the browse arrows at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar to jump from table to table. Click the round button between them to set the browse object to Browse by Table. Then click Next Table (the double down arrows), which will select the table, Backspace to delete it, Next Table, Backspace, and so on till they're all gone.
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word) 1999-2009
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QUESTION: That is so cool, thanks! I didn't know about that "Browse by" tool. The one thing I notice is that the table is not automatically selected. The cursor is at the start of the first cell. Is there a shortcut for selecting the whole table, so I could then hit Backspace? I feel bad asking before I've tried looking for it (the shortcut).
Answer Darn! Didn't test this, and obviously I should have. If you're in Print Layout view, you can click on the table handle (the square with a four-pointed arrow that appears when you mouse over the top left corner of the table), and that will select the entire table.
And I do hope you'll try the Replace + Find All operation as well. I'm a dunce about wildcards, which is why it took me so long to work that out.
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word) 1999-2009
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