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. Doing so has repercussions, however, Word will apply the next section's formatting to the section preceding the section break. 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. To delete a section break, click the symbol and press Delete. 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.
