How do I remove all carriage returns from a Word document?
If you expand the Replace dialog and click Special, you'll get a list of
special codes you can insert. ^l is a line break (inserted with
Shift+Enter).
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"guest in calif" wrote in message
...
Thanks so much to both of you!!!!
I failed to mention that the search for ^p yielded nothing, since I now
know
that it stands for the backwards P that indicates a CR. My data had the
symbol that looks like a backward L w/an arrow on the L side (like what is
printed on the "enter" key)
which evidently (thanks to grammatim reading my mind) also indicates a CR.
I formatted the whole thing in seconds.
Is there a list of such abbreviations anywhere?
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"grammatim" wrote:
Find/Replace (Ctrl-H)
Assuming that paragraphs are divided by an extra paragraph mark,
1. In the Find box, type ^p^p
In the Replace box, type ^l (small L)
Click Replace All
2a. (assuming there's a space between the last word on each line and
the paragraph mark)
In the Find box, type ^p
Clear the Replace box entirely
Click Replace All
2b (if there's no space between the last word on each line and the
paragraph mark)
In the Find box, type ^p
In the Replace box, type one space (you won't see anything)
Click Replace All
3. In the Find box, type ^l (small L)
In the Replace box, type ^p
Click Replace All
On Oct 30, 4:16 pm, guest in calif
wrote:
Hi Suzanne,
Maybe I'm more of a novice than I thought :-). I'm trying to remove
all
extraneous CR's that were found in the body of an email, so that it
will read
like a regular letter. I copied the body of the email (from
excite.com) into
MS Word, but can't get rid of the CR's w/o going from one line to the
next,
deleting the CR manually (ie, w/the backspace key). This takes too
much
time. Is there a quick formatting solution?
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
All carriage returns or just extra ones (empty paragraphs)? You can
search
for ^p and replace with nothing or search for ^p^p and replace with
^p,
depending on which you want to do.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"guest in calif" guest in wrote in
message
...
Does anyone have a quick solution to remove all carriage returns
from a
Word
document?
I would also like to know how to remove empty lines in excel that
result
when I cut and paste data from PDF's, or other sources. They are
often
merged
cells, and I can do it, but it takes several steps. ie-select all,
click
"merge" cells off, then select all, and sort. This often changes
the
order
of the data, which I don't want to do.-
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