![]() Microsoft Word selection is locked how to unlock: Once you’ve set these up, you’re free to start editing your document. 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. If you receive a message at the bottom of Word 2007, Word 2010, or other Office Word 2007 products every time you try to edit a document that says, This change is not allowed because the selection is blocked word. 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 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. ![]()
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