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Removing blank spaces and "" marks
Hi all. I take a lot of emails that have been forwarded several times and
contain a lot of those aggravating "" marks and paste them into a word document. When I use the Find and Replace and enter the and leave the replace with blank, word removes the , but now I'm left with all this white space. What's the secret for removing extra white space between words? -- Virg |
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Removing blank spaces and "" marks
You might like the free utility splitmail linked from the downloads page of
my web site, designed to do this in one operation - or see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Virg wrote: Hi all. I take a lot of emails that have been forwarded several times and contain a lot of those aggravating "" marks and paste them into a word document. When I use the Find and Replace and enter the and leave the replace with blank, word removes the , but now I'm left with all this white space. What's the secret for removing extra white space between words? |
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Removing blank spaces and "" marks
It helps if you include the space along with the when performing the
Replace, but if you've already failed to do that, try pressing Ctrl+E to center the paragraph, then Ctrl+L to left-align it again. For more on this, 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. "Virg" wrote in message ... Hi all. I take a lot of emails that have been forwarded several times and contain a lot of those aggravating "" marks and paste them into a word document. When I use the Find and Replace and enter the and leave the replace with blank, word removes the , but now I'm left with all this white space. What's the secret for removing extra white space between words? -- Virg |
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Removing blank spaces and "" marks
Thanks for the post! I have tried that, but I guess what I'm looking for is
the utility that Graham directed me to. Your suggestion DOES remove the "" and a blank space, but I still have to go back and do some touch up (sometimes a lot of touch up). -- Virg "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It helps if you include the space along with the when performing the Replace, but if you've already failed to do that, try pressing Ctrl+E to center the paragraph, then Ctrl+L to left-align it again. For more on this, 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. "Virg" wrote in message ... Hi all. I take a lot of emails that have been forwarded several times and contain a lot of those aggravating "" marks and paste them into a word document. When I use the Find and Replace and enter the and leave the replace with blank, word removes the , but now I'm left with all this white space. What's the secret for removing extra white space between words? -- Virg |
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Removing blank spaces and "" marks
I'm hoping so, Graham. Looks like exactly what I've been looking for and will
try it out with next email and will post an update here. THANK YOU! -- Virg "Graham Mayor" wrote: You might like the free utility splitmail linked from the downloads page of my web site, designed to do this in one operation - or see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Virg wrote: Hi all. I take a lot of emails that have been forwarded several times and contain a lot of those aggravating "" marks and paste them into a word document. When I use the Find and Replace and enter the and leave the replace with blank, word removes the , but now I'm left with all this white space. What's the secret for removing extra white space between words? |
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Removing blank spaces and "" marks
Did you try using Ctrl+E, Ctrl+L to remove the spaces? See also
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm, which offers a macro to automate the steps detailed in my article. -- 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. "Virg" wrote in message news Thanks for the post! I have tried that, but I guess what I'm looking for is the utility that Graham directed me to. Your suggestion DOES remove the "" and a blank space, but I still have to go back and do some touch up (sometimes a lot of touch up). -- Virg "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It helps if you include the space along with the when performing the Replace, but if you've already failed to do that, try pressing Ctrl+E to center the paragraph, then Ctrl+L to left-align it again. For more on this, 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. "Virg" wrote in message ... Hi all. I take a lot of emails that have been forwarded several times and contain a lot of those aggravating "" marks and paste them into a word document. When I use the Find and Replace and enter the and leave the replace with blank, word removes the , but now I'm left with all this white space. What's the secret for removing extra white space between words? -- Virg |
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