Hopefully this will save someone else some time pulling out their hair wondering why a text box that they’ve deleted heaps of times before in other documents won’t delete now. Navigate to Save as from the MS Office button.
Double-click on Word file to open and enter the password to open it. That’s where I saw the check box that prevented it from being deleted:Īll it took was to clear that check box, click OK, and I could delete the text box successfully. Follow the curated steps to learn how to unlock selection in word. To check the content control’s properties, I had to select the control, then go to the Developer tab, and click Properties. Here’s what one of these content controls looks like (Note: they don’t exist in Word 2003): Once I cleared that check box, I could delete the content control and its surrounding text box.
Then I noticed that it had a content control box for the title and wondered if that could be the culprit - it was! Someone had set the properties for that content control to stop it from being deleted. I had a devil of a time trying to delete a text box from the cover page of a Word 2007/2010 document the other day.
