I cut & paste a lot of stuff into Excel spread sheets form web pages that
include boxes or icons you either check (to update or delete), or click on
(to enter, edit or display), enter data into or hold the mouse over (to
open/display an information blurb box).

In Excel 2003 these boxes & icons paste in as picture boxes.
These boxes are not riley in any cell but kind of hover over a cell or cells
in the spread sheet, so if you highlight everything and delete it the picture
boxes move to the beginning of the rows but are not deleted.

In excel 2003 if I moved my curser over the box it gave me a 4 way arrow. If
I clicked on (select) the picture box it added 4 little circles to the
corners of the box. Then I could just hit the delete key and delete the
picture box.

In excel 2007 it dose not give me the 4 way arrow or let me click on
(select) the box. So I can not delete it.

See one of your other posts for 2 detailed solutions, and please try not to
cross post that is consider bad practice in Newsgroups.

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Cheers,
Shane Devenshire


"SMG" wrote:

I cut & paste a lot of stuff into Excel spread sheets form web pages that
include boxes or icons you either check (to update or delete), or click on
(to enter, edit or display), enter data into or hold the mouse over (to
open/display an information blurb box).

In Excel 2003 these boxes & icons paste in as picture boxes.
These boxes are not riley in any cell but kind of hover over a cell or cells
in the spread sheet, so if you highlight everything and delete it the picture
boxes move to the beginning of the rows but are not deleted.

In excel 2003 if I moved my curser over the box it gave me a 4 way arrow. If
I clicked on (select) the picture box it added 4 little circles to the
corners of the box. Then I could just hit the delete key and delete the
picture box.

In excel 2007 it dose not give me the 4 way arrow or let me click on
(select) the box. So I can not delete it.

Manually Press F5-Key, in the GoTo dialog box which appears press Special
button, then select the radio button for Objects, press OK the press the
Delete-key.


Programmatically to remove such debris run a little macro from your Personal
workbook.

Sub DeleteAllShapes()
'Purpose: To remove items such as pictures, jpg, bmp files from
Active sheet.
'Just in case it throws an error: eg sheet is protected.
On error goto ErrPoint
For Each oShape In ActiveSheet.Shapes
oShape.Delete
Next
On error goto 0

ErrPoint:
MsgBox Err.Description
End Sub

Paul

"SMG" wrote in message
...
I cut & paste a lot of stuff into Excel spread sheets form web pages that
include boxes or icons you either check (to update or delete), or click on
(to enter, edit or display), enter data into or hold the mouse over (to
open/display an information blurb box).

In Excel 2003 these boxes & icons paste in as picture boxes.
These boxes are not riley in any cell but kind of hover over a cell or
cells
in the spread sheet, so if you highlight everything and delete it the
picture
boxes move to the beginning of the rows but are not deleted.

In excel 2003 if I moved my curser over the box it gave me a 4 way arrow.
If
I clicked on (select) the picture box it added 4 little circles to the
corners of the box. Then I could just hit the delete key and delete the
picture box.

In excel 2007 it dose not give me the 4 way arrow or let me click on
(select) the box. So I can not delete it.

Hitting the keyboard "DEL" works for me?? once the picture is selected
(circles) Excel 2007

"SMG" wrote in message
...
I cut & paste a lot of stuff into Excel spread sheets form web pages that
include boxes or icons you either check (to update or delete), or click on
(to enter, edit or display), enter data into or hold the mouse over (to
open/display an information blurb box).

In Excel 2003 these boxes & icons paste in as picture boxes.
These boxes are not riley in any cell but kind of hover over a cell or
cells
in the spread sheet, so if you highlight everything and delete it the
picture
boxes move to the beginning of the rows but are not deleted.

In excel 2003 if I moved my curser over the box it gave me a 4 way arrow.
If
I clicked on (select) the picture box it added 4 little circles to the
corners of the box. Then I could just hit the delete key and delete the
picture box.

In excel 2007 it dose not give me the 4 way arrow or let me click on
(select) the box. So I can not delete it.

right click and select cut

"SMG" wrote:

I cut & paste a lot of stuff into Excel spread sheets form web pages that
include boxes or icons you either check (to update or delete), or click on
(to enter, edit or display), enter data into or hold the mouse over (to
open/display an information blurb box).

In Excel 2003 these boxes & icons paste in as picture boxes.
These boxes are not riley in any cell but kind of hover over a cell or cells
in the spread sheet, so if you highlight everything and delete it the picture
boxes move to the beginning of the rows but are not deleted.

In excel 2003 if I moved my curser over the box it gave me a 4 way arrow. If
I clicked on (select) the picture box it added 4 little circles to the
corners of the box. Then I could just hit the delete key and delete the
picture box.

In excel 2007 it dose not give me the 4 way arrow or let me click on
(select) the box. So I can not delete it.

If you right-click these items, do you get a popup menu that allows you to
"Cut" the item (or, alternately press Esc to dismiss the popup menu allowing
you to press the Delete key to remove it)?

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"SMG" wrote in message
...
I cut & paste a lot of stuff into Excel spread sheets form web pages that
include boxes or icons you either check (to update or delete), or click on
(to enter, edit or display), enter data into or hold the mouse over (to
open/display an information blurb box).

In Excel 2003 these boxes & icons paste in as picture boxes.
These boxes are not riley in any cell but kind of hover over a cell or
cells
in the spread sheet, so if you highlight everything and delete it the
picture
boxes move to the beginning of the rows but are not deleted.

In excel 2003 if I moved my curser over the box it gave me a 4 way arrow.
If
I clicked on (select) the picture box it added 4 little circles to the
corners of the box. Then I could just hit the delete key and delete the
picture box.

In excel 2007 it dose not give me the 4 way arrow or let me click on
(select) the box. So I can not delete it.

Reasonable cross-posting is not considered bad practice. What is bad
practice is either excessive cross-posting, or multi-posting. The OP's
message does not appear to have been cross-posted, but may have been
multi-posted.
--
David Biddulph

Shane Devenshire wrote:
See one of your other posts for 2 detailed solutions, and please try
not to cross post that is consider bad practice in Newsgroups.


I cut & paste a lot of stuff into Excel spread sheets form web pages
that include boxes or icons you either check (to update or delete),
or click on (to enter, edit or display), enter data into or hold the
mouse over (to open/display an information blurb box).

In Excel 2003 these boxes & icons paste in as picture boxes.
These boxes are not riley in any cell but kind of hover over a cell
or cells in the spread sheet, so if you highlight everything and
delete it the picture boxes move to the beginning of the rows but
are not deleted.

In excel 2003 if I moved my curser over the box it gave me a 4 way
arrow. If I clicked on (select) the picture box it added 4 little
circles to the corners of the box. Then I could just hit the delete
key and delete the picture box.

In excel 2007 it dose not give me the 4 way arrow or let me click on
(select) the box. So I can not delete it.