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Issue when I insert several spaces on a line.
I have a 2000 character long string that has about 500 spaces in the very beginning of the string. So basically I have 500 spaces and then 1500 characters after that. When I copy this 2000 characters from Notepad into MS Word 2003 (with SP3), the 500 spaces does not do a line-wrap and they go beyond the page. The 500 space characters are there but they are beyond the page !! If I put my cursor on the first space character and then go right using the right-arrow key, the cursor disapears as it goes beyond the page boundry. If I keep holding the right-arrow key for a long time, the cursor does return to line 2 where the first characters start (501 character position). I do have the page set to 8.5 x 11. You can duplicate this by just holding down the space-bar and you will see that the cursor runs out of the page...until you hit any character, at that instant the cursor come back to the next line and you will see the character you typed. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Joe |
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Issue when I insert several spaces on a line.
That is the way Word normally formats multiple spaces. You can override it
by going to Tools Options Compatibility tab and checking "Wrap trailing spaces to next line". -- Enjoy, Tony "joe" wrote in message ... I have a 2000 character long string that has about 500 spaces in the very beginning of the string. So basically I have 500 spaces and then 1500 characters after that. When I copy this 2000 characters from Notepad into MS Word 2003 (with SP3), the 500 spaces does not do a line-wrap and they go beyond the page. The 500 space characters are there but they are beyond the page !! If I put my cursor on the first space character and then go right using the right-arrow key, the cursor disapears as it goes beyond the page boundry. If I keep holding the right-arrow key for a long time, the cursor does return to line 2 where the first characters start (501 character position). I do have the page set to 8.5 x 11. You can duplicate this by just holding down the space-bar and you will see that the cursor runs out of the page...until you hit any character, at that instant the cursor come back to the next line and you will see the character you typed. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Joe |
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Issue when I insert several spaces on a line.
"joe" wrote:
I have a 2000 character long string that has about 500 spaces in the very beginning of the string. So basically I have 500 spaces and then 1500 characters after that. When I copy this 2000 characters from Notepad into MS Word 2003 (with SP3), the 500 spaces does not do a line-wrap and they go beyond the page. The 500 space characters are there but they are beyond the page !! If I put my cursor on the first space character and then go right using the right-arrow key, the cursor disapears as it goes beyond the page boundry. If I keep holding the right-arrow key for a long time, the cursor does return to line 2 where the first characters start (501 character position). I do have the page set to 8.5 x 11. You can duplicate this by just holding down the space-bar and you will see that the cursor runs out of the page...until you hit any character, at that instant the cursor come back to the next line and you will see the character you typed. Tools Options... Compatibility tab check "Wrap trailing spaces to next line" But why would you want to display 500 spaces?!? |
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Issue when I insert several spaces on a line.
Jean-Guy Marcil,
Thank you. That worked. I am documenting some legal paperwork that requires me to copy and paste EXACT data, down to the spaces, commas, & periods, which is why there are so many spaces that needs to copied over into my Word document. Joe. "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote: "joe" wrote: I have a 2000 character long string that has about 500 spaces in the very beginning of the string. So basically I have 500 spaces and then 1500 characters after that. When I copy this 2000 characters from Notepad into MS Word 2003 (with SP3), the 500 spaces does not do a line-wrap and they go beyond the page. The 500 space characters are there but they are beyond the page !! If I put my cursor on the first space character and then go right using the right-arrow key, the cursor disapears as it goes beyond the page boundry. If I keep holding the right-arrow key for a long time, the cursor does return to line 2 where the first characters start (501 character position). I do have the page set to 8.5 x 11. You can duplicate this by just holding down the space-bar and you will see that the cursor runs out of the page...until you hit any character, at that instant the cursor come back to the next line and you will see the character you typed. Tools Options... Compatibility tab check "Wrap trailing spaces to next line" But why would you want to display 500 spaces?!? |
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