get rid of text keep paths - illustrator

[rafonmacrumors]

Please help. I have produced an art-board worth of paths which all have text on them. There are many. I would like to apply strokes/lines to the paths that hold text. Since it seems you can't have both stroke and text on a path I intend to duplicate and layer the entire thing on top, getting rid of the text on one layer and applying the strokes/lines instead. So now I need to know how I can keep all the paths but get rid of all the text. Any ideas? Many thanks!

Raf

 

[zed]

Hey, just click the path with your Direct Selection tool (white arrow) and then you can apply a stroke to it. No need to duplicate everything or split them into layers.

 

[rafonmacrumors]

thanks! how embarrassing i missed that.