Where did tcebob say anything about manual line breaks? All I see is a
suggestion that you look for character 008, that you post a sample (as a
JPEG!), etc. I would have posted the link to
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm much earlier if JoAnn
had not already posted a link to
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm. What I had not counted on was
that Greg's page assumes you know what a line break looks like, which you
obviously didn't; for more on this, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Dave" wrote in message
...
Well I must say this has been a learning experience. Bob, aka tcebob,
has
come to my rescue, and gets first prize, by advising that the character
I'm
struggling with is a 'Manual line break' In retrospect, Suzanne comes in
second, however tcebob's explanation was a complete treatise on what to
do,
not just another question..
Now before we start with the flames, let me remind you I posted this on
the
Newuser" site. I never said I knew what I was doing.
Anyway, thank you all - ALL suggestions are appreciated -
Dave - off and running.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Are you sure these aren't just ordinary line breaks? You can find those
with
^l (lowercase L). See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Dave" wrote in message
...
Let's all remain calm everybody, the OP forgot to mention something
key.
Shall we start over.
I am the lucky recipient of a very lengthy report contained in,
unfortunately not attached to, an email message (if you think this OP
is
a
problem you should be so lucky as to be working with the sender). My
duty
is to edit this doc extensively, then combine it with others, etc.,
etc.
When you C/P from the email into Word, you get a zillion line
ending/backspace/paragraph characters, with formatting to match.
Really
ugly.
I was hoping there was a way to find/replace to clean this mess up.
Dave
"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
.. .
Okay. I was thinking more along the lines of a letter/number/symbol
and
not a command. Perhaps the OP needs to clarify what he/she is doing.
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
"tcebob" handle @ gwi.net wrote in message
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Well, actually, there is. (008) But whether Word uses it, I don't
know;
probably not.
There is an overtype format for making overlines and so forth but I
can't
say how it
actually works.
The backspace used to work fine on dot matrix printers and
Selectrics,
together with line
feed (without carriage return). I programmed some tables with these
characters and it was
fun to watch the printer jog back and forth, up and down.
rs
"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
news
: There is no such thing as a "backspace character".
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: JoAnn Paules
: MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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: "Dave" wrote in message
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: How can I do a Find and Replace on the backspace character?. I
don't
see
: how to get the backspace character into the 'Find What" slot.
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: Thx
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: Dave
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