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Formatting question. Please help.
I have transferred text from an apple word program by copy and pasting it
into an email and then copy and pasting it again into Microsoft Word (it was a last option). It worked, except there are huge random spaces between words in all the text that was copied this way. How can I format this text to return the spacing between words to normal. I'm pulling my hair out trying to work it out. I'd be most grateful to anyone who can save me having to format hundreds of pages of word documents, line by line. |
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Are the spaces true spaces (display formatting characters with CTRL+*) or
are they a result of some bizarre formatting anomaly? If the former, try a wildcard replace of space@{1,} with space or if there are tabs in the max, replace (not wildcard) ^w with space then select all the text and align to centre (CTRL+E) then align left (CTRL+L) to get rid of leading spaces. If the spaces are layout anomalies, apply a paragraph style then CTRL+Space to reset the text to that style. If these don't work, send me small sample via the link on my web site so I can see what we are dealing with. I would warn, however, that I am in the process of emigrating and so I cannot guarantee to respond quickly. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Johny Lee wrote: I have transferred text from an apple word program by copy and pasting it into an email and then copy and pasting it again into Microsoft Word (it was a last option). It worked, except there are huge random spaces between words in all the text that was copied this way. How can I format this text to return the spacing between words to normal. I'm pulling my hair out trying to work it out. I'd be most grateful to anyone who can save me having to format hundreds of pages of word documents, line by line. |
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In addition to Graham's answer, see also:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/CleanWebText.htm For some potentially helpful basics. And for future reference--I'm not sure what Apple word processing program you were using, but I'm pretty sure all of them have a Save As RTF (Rich Text Format) option in recent versions, and you could have saved as RTF, emailed the attachment to yourself, and then opened the RTF document in Word, no problem. It may still be worth doing this, assuming you have access to both computers. If you expect to do this again, post back saying which Apple program, I can maybe be more specific. If you were using MS Word on the Mac, the file would have transferred easily no action needed. On 5/1/05 10:36 PM, "Johny Lee" wrote: I have transferred text from an apple word program by copy and pasting it into an email and then copy and pasting it again into Microsoft Word (it was a last option). It worked, except there are huge random spaces between words in all the text that was copied this way. How can I format this text to return the spacing between words to normal. I'm pulling my hair out trying to work it out. I'd be most grateful to anyone who can save me having to format hundreds of pages of word documents, line by line. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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