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Robert Tracey
 
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Hi

I have copied some text from one application into Word 2003 and the copied
text has a carriage return at the end of every line. I have tried to get
rid of them by doing a find and replace but cannot get it to work. Can
anyone help please

Robert

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Shauna Kelly
 
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Hi Robert

See the following article, which covers most peculiarities of pasting text
into Word:

Cleaning up text pasted from the Web

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eanWebText.htm


Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"Robert Tracey" wrote in message
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Hi

I have copied some text from one application into Word 2003 and the copied
text has a carriage return at the end of every line. I have tried to get
rid of them by doing a find and replace but cannot get it to work. Can
anyone help please

Robert

======================================

Get 100's of eBooks from only 1p at my Ebay store

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Fourways-Discounts

======================================



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JR
 
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Are you sure that you copied text, and not a "picture" (jpg) of text ????
John


"Robert Tracey" wrote in message
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Hi

I have copied some text from one application into Word 2003 and the copied
text has a carriage return at the end of every line. I have tried to get
rid of them by doing a find and replace but cannot get it to work. Can
anyone help please

Robert

======================================

Get 100's of eBooks from only 1p at my Ebay store

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Fourways-Discounts

======================================



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