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bringing short lines together to make one line
Hi. I save OE posts of 60's Top 100 tracks each week. They are set out with
the title of the song and to the right its position in the chart, last week's position and highest position. Beneath that is the artist. I want to make them one-line lists. I can get rid of the numbers easily by replacing them with nothing, leaving me with a lot of blank spaces. I still have the song on one line followed by the artist on the next line. I want to bring the second line up to the first line so I can then sort and delete multiples (songs are in the charts many times). I have tried deleting the blank spaces but it still won't bring the second line up to the first line. As I'm doing very large numbers of these, I wondered if there's any quick way of doing it other than me going along to the end of each line and deleting the end-of-line mark? I hope. thanks Hoges in WA |
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Turn your show/hide button on. Determine what the character is that's making
the line break. It could be a line break or it could be a paragraph return, or even a tab or a table (make sure Table--Show Gridlines). Then you can delete the line break or return. Perhaps you'll get lucky and there's a line break after the song and a return after the artist, thereby allowing you to use find/replace (See Edit--Find and Replace--More--Special...) to get rid of the line break. See: http://www.officearticles.com/word/s...osoft_word.htm ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... Hi. I save OE posts of 60's Top 100 tracks each week. They are set out with the title of the song and to the right its position in the chart, last week's position and highest position. Beneath that is the artist. I want to make them one-line lists. I can get rid of the numbers easily by replacing them with nothing, leaving me with a lot of blank spaces. I still have the song on one line followed by the artist on the next line. I want to bring the second line up to the first line so I can then sort and delete multiples (songs are in the charts many times). I have tried deleting the blank spaces but it still won't bring the second line up to the first line. As I'm doing very large numbers of these, I wondered if there's any quick way of doing it other than me going along to the end of each line and deleting the end-of-line mark? I hope. thanks Hoges in WA |
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Not that lucky. At the end of each line is a return. I can't put a return
in the Replace field as it won't editpaste. Even if I could, it would string the whole page together and I'd have a similar problem going through and reinputting returns at the end of the lines I do want. I don't think the returns are hard input ones, as if I Del the blank spaces, the lower line comes up anyway. Maybe I'm not explaining it all that well but it sure is irritating me - I probably have something over 300 pages to format like this yet if I could get rid of the bits i don't want it would probably condense down to about 30 pages all up. "Anne Troy" wrote: Turn your show/hide button on. Determine what the character is that's making the line break. It could be a line break or it could be a paragraph return, or even a tab or a table (make sure Table--Show Gridlines). Then you can delete the line break or return. Perhaps you'll get lucky and there's a line break after the song and a return after the artist, thereby allowing you to use find/replace (See Edit--Find and Replace--More--Special...) to get rid of the line break. See: http://www.officearticles.com/word/s...osoft_word.htm ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... Hi. I save OE posts of 60's Top 100 tracks each week. They are set out with the title of the song and to the right its position in the chart, last week's position and highest position. Beneath that is the artist. I want to make them one-line lists. I can get rid of the numbers easily by replacing them with nothing, leaving me with a lot of blank spaces. I still have the song on one line followed by the artist on the next line. I want to bring the second line up to the first line so I can then sort and delete multiples (songs are in the charts many times). I have tried deleting the blank spaces but it still won't bring the second line up to the first line. As I'm doing very large numbers of these, I wondered if there's any quick way of doing it other than me going along to the end of each line and deleting the end-of-line mark? I hope. thanks Hoges in WA |
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If you can email your file, I can probably:
a) tell you exactly how to do it b) just do it for you within a matter of a few minutes. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... Not that lucky. At the end of each line is a return. I can't put a return in the Replace field as it won't editpaste. Even if I could, it would string the whole page together and I'd have a similar problem going through and reinputting returns at the end of the lines I do want. I don't think the returns are hard input ones, as if I Del the blank spaces, the lower line comes up anyway. Maybe I'm not explaining it all that well but it sure is irritating me - I probably have something over 300 pages to format like this yet if I could get rid of the bits i don't want it would probably condense down to about 30 pages all up. "Anne Troy" wrote: Turn your show/hide button on. Determine what the character is that's making the line break. It could be a line break or it could be a paragraph return, or even a tab or a table (make sure Table--Show Gridlines). Then you can delete the line break or return. Perhaps you'll get lucky and there's a line break after the song and a return after the artist, thereby allowing you to use find/replace (See Edit--Find and Replace--More--Special...) to get rid of the line break. See: http://www.officearticles.com/word/s...osoft_word.htm ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... Hi. I save OE posts of 60's Top 100 tracks each week. They are set out with the title of the song and to the right its position in the chart, last week's position and highest position. Beneath that is the artist. I want to make them one-line lists. I can get rid of the numbers easily by replacing them with nothing, leaving me with a lot of blank spaces. I still have the song on one line followed by the artist on the next line. I want to bring the second line up to the first line so I can then sort and delete multiples (songs are in the charts many times). I have tried deleting the blank spaces but it still won't bring the second line up to the first line. As I'm doing very large numbers of these, I wondered if there's any quick way of doing it other than me going along to the end of each line and deleting the end-of-line mark? I hope. thanks Hoges in WA |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm.
-- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Hoges in WA wrote: Not that lucky. At the end of each line is a return. I can't put a return in the Replace field as it won't editpaste. Even if I could, it would string the whole page together and I'd have a similar problem going through and reinputting returns at the end of the lines I do want. I don't think the returns are hard input ones, as if I Del the blank spaces, the lower line comes up anyway. Maybe I'm not explaining it all that well but it sure is irritating me - I probably have something over 300 pages to format like this yet if I could get rid of the bits i don't want it would probably condense down to about 30 pages all up. "Anne Troy" wrote: Turn your show/hide button on. Determine what the character is that's making the line break. It could be a line break or it could be a paragraph return, or even a tab or a table (make sure Table--Show Gridlines). Then you can delete the line break or return. Perhaps you'll get lucky and there's a line break after the song and a return after the artist, thereby allowing you to use find/replace (See Edit--Find and Replace--More--Special...) to get rid of the line break. See: http://www.officearticles.com/word/s...osoft_word.htm ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... Hi. I save OE posts of 60's Top 100 tracks each week. They are set out with the title of the song and to the right its position in the chart, last week's position and highest position. Beneath that is the artist. I want to make them one-line lists. I can get rid of the numbers easily by replacing them with nothing, leaving me with a lot of blank spaces. I still have the song on one line followed by the artist on the next line. I want to bring the second line up to the first line so I can then sort and delete multiples (songs are in the charts many times). I have tried deleting the blank spaces but it still won't bring the second line up to the first line. As I'm doing very large numbers of these, I wondered if there's any quick way of doing it other than me going along to the end of each line and deleting the end-of-line mark? I hope. thanks Hoges in WA |
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OK - to where?
"Anne Troy" wrote: If you can email your file, I can probably: a) tell you exactly how to do it b) just do it for you within a matter of a few minutes. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... Not that lucky. At the end of each line is a return. I can't put a return in the Replace field as it won't editpaste. Even if I could, it would string the whole page together and I'd have a similar problem going through and reinputting returns at the end of the lines I do want. I don't think the returns are hard input ones, as if I Del the blank spaces, the lower line comes up anyway. Maybe I'm not explaining it all that well but it sure is irritating me - I probably have something over 300 pages to format like this yet if I could get rid of the bits i don't want it would probably condense down to about 30 pages all up. "Anne Troy" wrote: Turn your show/hide button on. Determine what the character is that's making the line break. It could be a line break or it could be a paragraph return, or even a tab or a table (make sure Table--Show Gridlines). Then you can delete the line break or return. Perhaps you'll get lucky and there's a line break after the song and a return after the artist, thereby allowing you to use find/replace (See Edit--Find and Replace--More--Special...) to get rid of the line break. See: http://www.officearticles.com/word/s...osoft_word.htm ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... Hi. I save OE posts of 60's Top 100 tracks each week. They are set out with the title of the song and to the right its position in the chart, last week's position and highest position. Beneath that is the artist. I want to make them one-line lists. I can get rid of the numbers easily by replacing them with nothing, leaving me with a lot of blank spaces. I still have the song on one line followed by the artist on the next line. I want to bring the second line up to the first line so I can then sort and delete multiples (songs are in the charts many times). I have tried deleting the blank spaces but it still won't bring the second line up to the first line. As I'm doing very large numbers of these, I wondered if there's any quick way of doing it other than me going along to the end of each line and deleting the end-of-line mark? I hope. thanks Hoges in WA |
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That would seem to be the solution!!. It's too late at night here for me to
get my head around it now (it's nearly midnight) so I'll do it tomorrow. Thanks "Jay Freedman" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Hoges in WA wrote: Not that lucky. At the end of each line is a return. I can't put a return in the Replace field as it won't editpaste. Even if I could, it would string the whole page together and I'd have a similar problem going through and reinputting returns at the end of the lines I do want. I don't think the returns are hard input ones, as if I Del the blank spaces, the lower line comes up anyway. Maybe I'm not explaining it all that well but it sure is irritating me - I probably have something over 300 pages to format like this yet if I could get rid of the bits i don't want it would probably condense down to about 30 pages all up. "Anne Troy" wrote: Turn your show/hide button on. Determine what the character is that's making the line break. It could be a line break or it could be a paragraph return, or even a tab or a table (make sure Table--Show Gridlines). Then you can delete the line break or return. Perhaps you'll get lucky and there's a line break after the song and a return after the artist, thereby allowing you to use find/replace (See Edit--Find and Replace--More--Special...) to get rid of the line break. See: http://www.officearticles.com/word/s...osoft_word.htm ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... Hi. I save OE posts of 60's Top 100 tracks each week. They are set out with the title of the song and to the right its position in the chart, last week's position and highest position. Beneath that is the artist. I want to make them one-line lists. I can get rid of the numbers easily by replacing them with nothing, leaving me with a lot of blank spaces. I still have the song on one line followed by the artist on the next line. I want to bring the second line up to the first line so I can then sort and delete multiples (songs are in the charts many times). I have tried deleting the blank spaces but it still won't bring the second line up to the first line. As I'm doing very large numbers of these, I wondered if there's any quick way of doing it other than me going along to the end of each line and deleting the end-of-line mark? I hope. thanks Hoges in WA |
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On 9/16/05 7:10 AM, "Hoges in WA" wrote:
Not that lucky. At the end of each line is a return. I can't put a return in the Replace field as it won't editpaste. Side note: to do this, click on More in the Replace dialog, and the Special menu will allow you to enter such characters. Once you learn the codes, you can just type them in instead of bothering with the menus. |
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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. "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... Hi. I save OE posts of 60's Top 100 tracks each week. They are set out with the title of the song and to the right its position in the chart, last week's position and highest position. Beneath that is the artist. I want to make them one-line lists. I can get rid of the numbers easily by replacing them with nothing, leaving me with a lot of blank spaces. I still have the song on one line followed by the artist on the next line. I want to bring the second line up to the first line so I can then sort and delete multiples (songs are in the charts many times). I have tried deleting the blank spaces but it still won't bring the second line up to the first line. As I'm doing very large numbers of these, I wondered if there's any quick way of doing it other than me going along to the end of each line and deleting the end-of-line mark? I hope. thanks Hoges in WA |
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That "MoreReplaceSpecial" is mint! I didn't know I could replace all
digits at one go - I've been doing 1 replace all 2 replace all 3 replace all. Now I can do it once only. The tip in "Cleaning up text pasted from the Web" about centre justifying and then left justifying works well too - that used to drive me crazy. I am most of the way towards doing this. Each line has a pilcrow so it's coming from OE as a paragraph per line. The Autoformat is half-working - I can't do the suggested clean up in "Cleaning up...." above because there are no hard return lines and no line breaks - each one is a paragraph. However, using the "MoreReplaceSpecial" is getting most of the way there because it's wrapping each two lines at roughly where I have my margin set. I don't think it's going to be a perfect solution but it's way better than what I was doing before and what I was faced with. For those interested in this little exercise, what I am doing is retrieving the Top 100 lists of each week of each year of the 60s. I am then combining the files, cleaning up the stuff I don't want and sorting into order. I then end up with multiples of some songs (as they are in the Top 100 many times in some cases) and keeping only one. I can then peruse and see what's left. If I have the track already, I can clear it. If I don't, I can put it on my list to go get. What I am aiming for by the end of next year, when all lists have been published, is a complete list of every track that made the top 100 duing 1960. If I like the track, I'll then add it to my MusicMatch library (currently 3,400-odd tracks). If I don't, I just don't bother with it. Just so you know what started this. Thanks Terry Hogan (in south west of Western Australia) "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: On 9/16/05 7:10 AM, "Hoges in WA" wrote: Not that lucky. At the end of each line is a return. I can't put a return in the Replace field as it won't editpaste. Side note: to do this, click on More in the Replace dialog, and the Special menu will allow you to enter such characters. Once you learn the codes, you can just type them in instead of bothering with the menus. |
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