Word text box select all

Step 2: Click on the text boxes. Now, press and hold the CTRL key and click the next one. Repeat the same steps to go over all of the text boxes in your document. There you have it! That’s how you use the CTRL key and your mouse to select multiple text boxes in Word.

To select text programmatically

1. Set the SelectionStart property to the beginning of the text you want to select.
2. Set the SelectionLength property to the length of the text you want to select.
3. (Optional) Access the selected text through the SelectedText property.

What are text box controls?

A TextBox control is used to display, or accept as input, a single line of text. A text box object is used to display text on a form or to get user input while a VB.Net program is running. In a text box, a user can type data or paste it into the control from the clipboard.

What are the properties of TextBox control?

Important properties of TextBox

How do I force select all?

Navigate to any webpage that you want to select and copy text from, then tap on the Share button in the toolbar. In the Share sheet that opens, scroll down and select “Force Select All” from the actions list. The shortcut will then request access to the webpage, which it needs to select all of the text.

What is TextBox in asp net?

ASP.NET Web Forms TextBox. This is an input control which is used to take user input. To create TextBox either we can write code or use the drag and drop facility of visual studio IDE. This is server side control, asp provides own tag to create it.

How do I add a TextBox in Visual Studio?

To add a button and a text box Verify that the document is open in the Visual Studio designer. From the Common Controls tab of the Toolbox, drag a TextBox control to the document.

What is the purpose of a text box?

A text box is an object you can add to your document that lets you put and type text anywhere in your file. Text boxes can be useful for drawing attention to specific text and can also be helpful when you need to move text around in your document.

• Using the CTRL key and your mouse
• Using the Select Objects tool
• Using the Selection Pane

Method 1: Using the CTRL Key and Your Mouse

Step 1: Open your MS Word document. 

Step 2: Click on the text boxes. 

Once your document is ready, select a text box in your document. You can do this by clicking on any of the four sides of your text box.

Now, press and hold the CTRL key and click the next one.

Repeat the same steps to go over all of the text boxes in your document. 

Method 2: Using the Select Objects Tool

Step 1: Open an MS Word document. 

Step 2: Zoom out your document. 

To be able to select all text boxes on a page, zoom out your document to view the entire page.

You can do this by clicking the Zoom Out button found at the bottom right corner of your window.

Keep clicking until all your text boxes on a page are visible. 

Step 3: Access the Select Objects tool. 

Now that your document is ready, go to the Editing group found at the rightmost part of the Home tab.

Click the Select Objects drop-down menu and select the Select Objects tool. 

Now, click the upper right portion of your document and drag your cursor to its bottom right. 

This will select all the text boxes on the respective page.

Method 3: Using the Selection Pane

The Selection Pane lists down all objects in your document. This way, you can easily select your text boxes throughout your document from the list.

The disadvantage though is that this method requires the text boxes to be in a different text wrapping format other than the default.

Step 1: Open up a Word document. 

Step 2: Display the Selection Pane. 

Click the Select drop-down menu found at the rightmost part of the Home tab. On the list of options, select the Selection Pane.

This will display the Selection Pane on the right side of your window.

You should see a list of text boxes you have in your document. 

Step 3: Select your text boxes. 

On the Selection Pane, press and hold the CTRL key while clicking each text box that you want to select.

Conclusion 

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.I’ve been try to figure out a way to select all my text boxes on a page i WORD, some of which are hidden behind other text boxes. There are about 30 text boxes per page.
These are difficult to SHIFT select manually. There are methods to select all objects on a document of course, but I can’t find any way to single out a page.

By trial and error I was able to find the objects by number and I can select them using the following code

    Sub GetPageTextBoxes()

    Dim pageNum As Integer

    'Shape Numbers on Page 4
    ActiveDocument.Shapes.Range(Array(37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)).Select
End Sub

The example only selects a few of them. Objects are numbered as they are created so shape 45 and 46 can be on different pages.

I need a way to find and select all the shapes on a single page.
Sorry this is a Word document and I forgot to specify that.

Thanks in advance