[Luc]

Eric,
Not sure what version you are using but if it is Word 2002/2003. When
pasting there should be a little icon beneath the pasted text, called paste
options, if you click on it you should be able to paste unformatted text.
Which will remove the formatting from the pasted text and remove the blank
spaces.

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Luc Sanders
(MVP - PowerPoint)
"Eric" schreef in bericht
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Somebody showed me this trick a while back, but I didn't take notes.

I have what appears to be a block of text in a text-only file I want to
copy--but when you highlight it, you get a lot of blank spaces before and
after each line of text.

Does anybody know how to select only the portion that appears to be the
"block" for copying/pasting without all the extra spaces? TIA.