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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am trying to remove PageText items completely. I can delete the child TextBlock element, leaving a blank string. But the parent PageText item remains (in the form of visible, empty text handles all over the score.).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is the code I am using to delete the child TextBlock data:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>local pagetexts = finale.FCPageTexts()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>pagetexts:LoadAll()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>local size = 0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>for pagetext in each(pagetexts) do<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> size = size + 1 </span><span style='color:#548235;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#548235;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>--this creates index data to be used in a later “for” loop</span><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> local textblock = pagetext:CreateTextBlock()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> if textblock then<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> textblock:DeleteData()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> end<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>end<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>pagetexts:SaveAll()</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And this is one of my many attempts to then delete the PageText items themselves:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>local pagetexts = finale.FCPageTexts()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>pagetexts:LoadAll()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>for i = size, 1, -1 do </span><span style='color:#548235;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#548235;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>--traverse backwards to avoid problems with iteration of deleted objects<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> pagetexts:DeleteDataForItem(i)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>end<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>pagetexts:SaveAll()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have also tried all sorts of permutation of DeleteData(), DeepDeleteData(), and ClearAll().<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is almost as if the PageTexts collection is itself a child of another object that needs to be deleted, too.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Suggestions? Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martin Marris<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>