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Rae Drysdale Rae Drysdale is offline
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Default how to get rid of manual line breaks?

Search and replace. Click on the More button and select Manual line break
from the Special menu. You can type a space in the Replace with box or leave
it blank if spaces are already included. Hit Replace All and job's done!
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Rae Drysdale


"memsahib" wrote:

Hi. I converted a large PubMed search to text then copied & pasted the
results into Word. The document ended up being 256 pages long, but only
because there are manual line breaks rather than text wrap, and the line
breaks are stopping each line at about 4 inches from the left margin.

I can SEE the line breaks by revealling the formatting but I can't get RID
of them except by manually deleting each one... I will die of old age, and I
bet I'll be glad to do so because I'll have carpal tunnel for sure after
this.

~M