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Newbie question about page breaks and reformatting a document
I have a .PDF converted to .DOC that I intend to print on paper. The text is
too small to read, so I increased the font size. This pushes the lines to the right of the page so they wrap to the next line. In the past I've manually deleted carriage returns at the end of the lines, reformatting the document manually. This document is way too big. How can I reformat the document without removing the carriage returns that I need to keep? Below is an example of what I'm trying to describe: ORIGINAL TEXT IN 12pt. looks like this: --------------------------------------- The story began like this. One day, at the peak of my work rush, as I was sweating over a lost shipment intended for the Kitezhgrad Magicotechnical Plant, my friend Eddie Amperian showed up in my office. Being a polite and well-brought-up person, he did not materialize unceremoniously right in the rickety visitor's chair, or barge in obnoxiously through the wall, or hurtle through the open transom like a catapulted cobblestone. Most of my friends are always in a hurry, late for something, or behind schedule, and they always materialize, or barge in, or hurtle through shamelessly whenever they feel like it, eschewing normal communications. Eddie was not like them: he modestly entered through the door. He even knocked, but came in before I had time to answer. REFORMATTED TEXT IN 14pt. looks like this: --------------------------------------------------- The story began like this. One day, at the peak of my work rush, as I was sweating over a lost shipment intended for the Kitezhgrad Magicotechnical Plant, my friend Eddie Amperian showed up in my office. Being a polite and well-brought-up person, he did not materialize unceremoniously right in the rickety visitor's chair, or barge in obnoxiously through the wall, or hurtle through the open transom like a catapulted cobblestone. Most of my friends are always in a hurry, late for something, or behind schedule, and they always materialize, or barge in, or hurtle through shamelessly whenever they feel like it, eschewing normal communications. Eddie was not like them: he modestly entered through the door. He even knocked, but came in before I had time to answer. |
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Newbie question about page breaks and reformatting a document
See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Matthew C." Matthew wrote in message ... I have a .PDF converted to .DOC that I intend to print on paper. The text is too small to read, so I increased the font size. This pushes the lines to the right of the page so they wrap to the next line. In the past I've manually deleted carriage returns at the end of the lines, reformatting the document manually. This document is way too big. How can I reformat the document without removing the carriage returns that I need to keep? Below is an example of what I'm trying to describe: ORIGINAL TEXT IN 12pt. looks like this: --------------------------------------- The story began like this. One day, at the peak of my work rush, as I was sweating over a lost shipment intended for the Kitezhgrad Magicotechnical Plant, my friend Eddie Amperian showed up in my office. Being a polite and well-brought-up person, he did not materialize unceremoniously right in the rickety visitor's chair, or barge in obnoxiously through the wall, or hurtle through the open transom like a catapulted cobblestone. Most of my friends are always in a hurry, late for something, or behind schedule, and they always materialize, or barge in, or hurtle through shamelessly whenever they feel like it, eschewing normal communications. Eddie was not like them: he modestly entered through the door. He even knocked, but came in before I had time to answer. REFORMATTED TEXT IN 14pt. looks like this: --------------------------------------------------- The story began like this. One day, at the peak of my work rush, as I was sweating over a lost shipment intended for the Kitezhgrad Magicotechnical Plant, my friend Eddie Amperian showed up in my office. Being a polite and well-brought-up person, he did not materialize unceremoniously right in the rickety visitor's chair, or barge in obnoxiously through the wall, or hurtle through the open transom like a catapulted cobblestone. Most of my friends are always in a hurry, late for something, or behind schedule, and they always materialize, or barge in, or hurtle through shamelessly whenever they feel like it, eschewing normal communications. Eddie was not like them: he modestly entered through the door. He even knocked, but came in before I had time to answer. |
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Newbie question about page breaks and reformatting a document
Thanks for the help. The document has some more complicated formatting,
specifically First Line Indent and Left Indent. Deleting the ^p from the second line of the paragraph caused the whole paragraph to be indented. Because each paragraph typically ends with a period, I replaced ".^p" with ".^p^p" to separate the paragraphs. That made it easier to view. Now, any carriage return following a letter is replaced by the same letter and a space. I end up doing find/replace 26 times, but at least it's somewhat automated. If I could figure out how to move the Left Indent, it would be done. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org |
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Newbie question about page breaks and reformatting a document
It took me a few tries, but I figured it out. Something I did made Format
Paragraph work the way I expected and now I've got a nice clean document. Usually I stay up late playing games, not working with Windows. Clean Up Text was very useful. Thanks again! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Matthew C." Matthew wrote in message ... I have a .PDF converted to .DOC that I intend to print on paper. The text is too small to read, so I increased the font size. This pushes the lines to the right of the page so they wrap to the next line. In the past I've manually deleted carriage returns at the end of the lines, reformatting the document manually. This document is way too big. How can I reformat the document without removing the carriage returns that I need to keep? Below is an example of what I'm trying to describe: ORIGINAL TEXT IN 12pt. looks like this: --------------------------------------- The story began like this. One day, at the peak of my work rush, as I was sweating over a lost shipment intended for the Kitezhgrad Magicotechnical Plant, my friend Eddie Amperian showed up in my office. Being a polite and well-brought-up person, he did not materialize unceremoniously right in the rickety visitor's chair, or barge in obnoxiously through the wall, or hurtle through the open transom like a catapulted cobblestone. Most of my friends are always in a hurry, late for something, or behind schedule, and they always materialize, or barge in, or hurtle through shamelessly whenever they feel like it, eschewing normal communications. Eddie was not like them: he modestly entered through the door. He even knocked, but came in before I had time to answer. REFORMATTED TEXT IN 14pt. looks like this: --------------------------------------------------- The story began like this. One day, at the peak of my work rush, as I was sweating over a lost shipment intended for the Kitezhgrad Magicotechnical Plant, my friend Eddie Amperian showed up in my office. Being a polite and well-brought-up person, he did not materialize unceremoniously right in the rickety visitor's chair, or barge in obnoxiously through the wall, or hurtle through the open transom like a catapulted cobblestone. Most of my friends are always in a hurry, late for something, or behind schedule, and they always materialize, or barge in, or hurtle through shamelessly whenever they feel like it, eschewing normal communications. Eddie was not like them: he modestly entered through the door. He even knocked, but came in before I had time to answer. |
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Newbie question about page breaks and reformatting a document
The trick is not to remove paragraph marks but to convert them to line
breaks, then convert the double line breaks (which you create as needed) to paragraph marks. Then when you remove the line breaks you should end up with paragraphs with only a first-line indent (or none). As you've found, Format | Paragraph will handle any remaining problems (or you could just drag the indent markers on the ruler), but applying styles with the desired formatting would be an even better approach. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Matthew C." wrote in message ... Thanks for the help. The document has some more complicated formatting, specifically First Line Indent and Left Indent. Deleting the ^p from the second line of the paragraph caused the whole paragraph to be indented. Because each paragraph typically ends with a period, I replaced ".^p" with ".^p^p" to separate the paragraphs. That made it easier to view. Now, any carriage return following a letter is replaced by the same letter and a space. I end up doing find/replace 26 times, but at least it's somewhat automated. If I could figure out how to move the Left Indent, it would be done. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org |
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