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Hard carriage returns
Hi,
Please help, got lost. I usually make A5 publications, which sometimes I have to process with Concordance software, which in its turn makes quotes next to each word. Now, I would like to make short quotes, equal to each line, instead of a sentence. How can I insert hard carriage returns that would break the lines at a margine break automatically, not manually. Thanx in advance, ArthurN |
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I'm confused. You can either type continuously and let Word wrap your text
at the margin (or a paragraph indent), or you can insert a paragraph break (Enter) or line break (Shift+Enter) to start a new paragraph or break the line artificially without starting a new paragraph. Inserting a "hard carriage return" (presumably Enter) and "breaking lines automatically" are thus mutually exclusive. Can you describe a little better exactly what you're trying to do? If you're looking to convert this to a text file with line breaks, then you need to save in that format. -- 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. "ArthurN" wrote in message ... Hi, Please help, got lost. I usually make A5 publications, which sometimes I have to process with Concordance software, which in its turn makes quotes next to each word. Now, I would like to make short quotes, equal to each line, instead of a sentence. How can I insert hard carriage returns that would break the lines at a margine break automatically, not manually. Thanx in advance, ArthurN |
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Thank you, Suzanne S. Barnhill, for a quick reply,
here's what I want: Let's say, that's how a story looks: Community Colleges, institutions of higher education offering two-year programs of general study or technical or vocational training. Lines wrapped at paper margins. Now whether I copy the text or save it in plain text format (with or without line breaks LR/LF) it won't preserve the original word wrapping. When I use the concordance software to get the word from the first line, say "story" it would also quote the sentence cut at a line break, but as lines are only wrapped at margins and don't actually have any breaks the concordance software instead of quoting the first line only would grab the whole sentence, which might be as long as a paragraph. Thus this would also render line numbering in MS Word useless for the concordance software. So, what I would like to do is to make this "line wrapping" permanent, insert some sort of carriage returns automatically, not by hand. Is there an easy way to do that? Thanx, ArthurN |
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Saving doc as a plain text files does preserves line breaks, unfortunately it
ignores those with pictures (and not picture/text wrapping works for that) I'm not at all strong at VBA, but may be I could write some macro that would walk from the beginning of the file, inserting manual line breaks, ignoring those with usual breaks (^p), until it hits the end of the file. That's what the macro builder records when I press end and shift+enter for the manual break Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine Selection.TypeText Text:=Chr(11) But I have no idea how to do the rest... Regards, ArthurN |
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This seems to me like a problem that should be solved by the concordance
software, not left to you to figure out. Even with VBA I don't think it would be easy to do, but if a VBA solution is acceptable, you'd do better to post your question in one of the word.vba newsgroups. -- 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. "ArthurN" wrote in message ... Thank you, Suzanne S. Barnhill, for a quick reply, here's what I want: Let's say, that's how a story looks: Community Colleges, institutions of higher education offering two-year programs of general study or technical or vocational training. Lines wrapped at paper margins. Now whether I copy the text or save it in plain text format (with or without line breaks LR/LF) it won't preserve the original word wrapping. When I use the concordance software to get the word from the first line, say "story" it would also quote the sentence cut at a line break, but as lines are only wrapped at margins and don't actually have any breaks the concordance software instead of quoting the first line only would grab the whole sentence, which might be as long as a paragraph. Thus this would also render line numbering in MS Word useless for the concordance software. So, what I would like to do is to make this "line wrapping" permanent, insert some sort of carriage returns automatically, not by hand. Is there an easy way to do that? Thanx, ArthurN |
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