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Removing Hard Line Breaks
I download a lot of 'txt' file books from Project Gutenberg. I then convert
them to MS ebooks using the add in available for download at the MS Reader web section. But there's a problem. Being 'txt' files, they all have hard line breaks at the end of each and every line. During the conversion to Reader format, these hard line breaks stay with the text, making the converted file very hard to read. Is there some kind of macro or add in that will convert 'txt' files into regular '.doc' files (or '.docx' files)? I've tried 'find and replace', but it creates it's own set of problems. -- Kevin Carlson |
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Removing Hard Line Breaks
Word will open .txt files directly, edit them, and save them as .txt
files. You don't have to "convert" them in any way. To remove the extra line breaks, see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eanWebText.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:33:00 -0800, Kevin Carlson wrote: I download a lot of 'txt' file books from Project Gutenberg. I then convert them to MS ebooks using the add in available for download at the MS Reader web section. But there's a problem. Being 'txt' files, they all have hard line breaks at the end of each and every line. During the conversion to Reader format, these hard line breaks stay with the text, making the converted file very hard to read. Is there some kind of macro or add in that will convert 'txt' files into regular '.doc' files (or '.docx' files)? I've tried 'find and replace', but it creates it's own set of problems. |
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Removing Hard Line Breaks
Acutually, my question isn't so much about how to open and save the 'txt'
files. It's about how to make them readable during the conversion from 'txt' to ebook format. This is especially true when I port the ebooks over to my handheld device. For short articles I can manually remove all of the hard line breaks. But for a novel, this is impossibly long. With the hard breaks in place, the resulting ebook is not formatted in the smooth, justified paragraphs that we see in most ebooks. -- Kevin Carlson "Jay Freedman" wrote: Word will open .txt files directly, edit them, and save them as .txt files. You don't have to "convert" them in any way. To remove the extra line breaks, see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eanWebText.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:33:00 -0800, Kevin Carlson wrote: I download a lot of 'txt' file books from Project Gutenberg. I then convert them to MS ebooks using the add in available for download at the MS Reader web section. But there's a problem. Being 'txt' files, they all have hard line breaks at the end of each and every line. During the conversion to Reader format, these hard line breaks stay with the text, making the converted file very hard to read. Is there some kind of macro or add in that will convert 'txt' files into regular '.doc' files (or '.docx' files)? I've tried 'find and replace', but it creates it's own set of problems. |
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Removing Hard Line Breaks
The article I cited,
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eanWebText.htm, explains how to clear out all the extra line breaks in a few easy steps. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:51:01 -0800, Kevin Carlson wrote: Acutually, my question isn't so much about how to open and save the 'txt' files. It's about how to make them readable during the conversion from 'txt' to ebook format. This is especially true when I port the ebooks over to my handheld device. For short articles I can manually remove all of the hard line breaks. But for a novel, this is impossibly long. With the hard breaks in place, the resulting ebook is not formatted in the smooth, justified paragraphs that we see in most ebooks. |
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