Whatever the reason, this post helps to delete a text box without removing text in a Word or Excel file on a Windows 11/10 PC. You don’t need any add-ins for this purpose.

Wrapped text can be difficult to select in Microsoft Word 2010. You can accidentally select the image around which the text is wrapped, so if you press "Delete," you delete the image as well as ...

Since Microsoft Word has had the text box feature for so long, it's managed to effectively streamline the creation process. It just takes a couple of clicks to make a fresh text box.