How do I delete Word Art when set behind text?

[Guest]

I used Word Art instead of the watermark, set it behind the text, and now
cannot delete it. I am using Word 2003.

Thanks

 

[Jay Freedman]

I used Word Art instead of the watermark, set it behind the text, and
now cannot delete it. I am using Word 2003.

Display the Drawing toolbar. Click the big white arrow ("Select Object") and
then click the Word Art object. (If the object was inserted in a header or
footer, you'll have to use View > Header/Footer first.)

 

[Guest]

Thanks - but that didn't work - it will not let me select the word art
obviously because it is behind the text and I can't click on it. This is
very frustrating!!!

Maureen

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Maureen,

Hmm, it's supposed to work, and it does work here. Just to make sure we're
talking about the same thing: I display the Drawing toolbar. I click the big
white arrow that's the second item on the toolbar (after the Draw menu
button). As I move the mouse over the Word Art object, the mouse cursor
grows three little arrows pointing left, right, and up from the tip of the
big arrow. When I click on the Word Art, little white circles appear at the
corners and edges of the surrounding rectangle, and a little green circle
appears at the top (that's for rotating the Word Art). If I press Delete,
the Word Art goes away.

If that doesn't happen for you, something's not right in your document. If
it isn't confidential material, you can email it to me and I'll have a look
at it.

 

[Guest]

Hi Jay

Thanks that worked - I think I was dragging when I should have been clicking.

Maureen

 

[gucwam]

This might have been an old posting but boy did it help!! I have a document
which went from Word 2003 to Word 2007 to an Apple back to Word 2003.
Somehow during that process, what I had origionally inserted as a watermark
became word are on all but the first page and the word art was connected to
the header/footer command. Wow, what a zoo. I almost had to re-type a 100+
page document!