I asked Dave to send me a sample privately since attachments are verboten. I will post the
step-by-step if anyone wants. The original had manual line breaks throughout and every
indent was done with a series of non-breaking spaces. There were miscellaneous
non-breaking spaces throughout, just to make it interesting.
rs
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
: 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
:
: --
: Suzanne S. Barnhill
: Microsoft MVP (Word)
: Words into Type
: Fairhope, Alabama USA
: Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
: Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
: all may benefit.
:
: "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
: ...
: 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
:
: --
: Suzanne S. Barnhill
: Microsoft MVP (Word)
: Words into Type
: Fairhope, Alabama USA
: Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
: Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
: newsgroup
: so
: all may benefit.
:
: "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.
:
: --
:
: JoAnn Paules
: MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
:
:
:
:
: "tcebob" handle @ gwi.net wrote in message
: ...
: 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".
: :
: : --
: :
: : JoAnn Paules
: : MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
: :
: :
: :
: :
: : "Dave" wrote in message
: : ...
: : 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.
: :
: : Thx
: :
: : Dave
: :
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