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How to eliminate line-breaks but preserve blank lines?
I received a basic Notepad file which I need to convert to Word. The Notepad
file contains unwanted line-breaks which break every line at about 60 characters. I want to eliminate all line breaks except for line-breaks immediately before and after a blank line, since these are effectively paragraph separators. How can I do this? Thanks very much for your help. Joseph Geretz |
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How to eliminate line-breaks but preserve blank lines?
Just to clarify: The marks at the end of each line are paragraph markers,
each paragraph is separated by a blank line. Here's how I worked around this: Replace: -^p with Nothing. (Eliminates hyphenated words) Replace: ^p with Space. (Eliminates hard line-breaks) Replace SpaceSpace with ^p^p (Restores paragraph breaks) I think this took care of 98% of my formatting needs, but now I'll have to scan through this and make minor adjustments. I guess there's got to be a better way? Thanks, Joseph Geretz "Joseph Geretz" wrote in message ... I received a basic Notepad file which I need to convert to Word. The Notepad file contains unwanted line-breaks which break every line at about 60 characters. I want to eliminate all line breaks except for line-breaks immediately before and after a blank line, since these are effectively paragraph separators. How can I do this? Thanks very much for your help. Joseph Geretz |
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How to eliminate line-breaks but preserve blank lines?
Hi Joseph,
The next time you have this kind of job to do, see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eanWebText.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:45:42 -0500, "Joseph Geretz" wrote: Just to clarify: The marks at the end of each line are paragraph markers, each paragraph is separated by a blank line. Here's how I worked around this: Replace: -^p with Nothing. (Eliminates hyphenated words) Replace: ^p with Space. (Eliminates hard line-breaks) Replace SpaceSpace with ^p^p (Restores paragraph breaks) I think this took care of 98% of my formatting needs, but now I'll have to scan through this and make minor adjustments. I guess there's got to be a better way? Thanks, Joseph Geretz "Joseph Geretz" wrote in message ... I received a basic Notepad file which I need to convert to Word. The Notepad file contains unwanted line-breaks which break every line at about 60 characters. I want to eliminate all line breaks except for line-breaks immediately before and after a blank line, since these are effectively paragraph separators. How can I do this? Thanks very much for your help. Joseph Geretz |
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