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Remove hard carriage returns
I have a document that someone created using a hard carriage return
(paragraph mark) at the end of each line. I need to quickly remove them so the document will be easier to edit. I know I can go to each paragraph mark and delete it, adding a space between words, but that's really inefficient for a lengthy document. The "Find & Replace" feature won't accept a carriage return (enter key) as a valid character to find OR replace. Can someone tell me how to save the couple of hours it will take to manually remove these paragraph marks from this document? I can't seem to find anything helpful in Help. Thank you for your assistance!! |
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Hi Rusty,
"Rusty" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I have a document that someone created using a hard carriage return (paragraph mark) at the end of each line. I need to quickly remove them so the document will be easier to edit. [...] The "Find & Replace" feature won't accept a carriage return (enter key) as a valid character to find OR replace. search for ^p or use the button "more/ special". -- Regards Lisa MS MVP Word |
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See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eanWebText.htm .
Rusty wrote: I have a document that someone created using a hard carriage return (paragraph mark) at the end of each line. I need to quickly remove them so the document will be easier to edit. I know I can go to each paragraph mark and delete it, adding a space between words, but that's really inefficient for a lengthy document. The "Find & Replace" feature won't accept a carriage return (enter key) as a valid character to find OR replace. Can someone tell me how to save the couple of hours it will take to manually remove these paragraph marks from this document? I can't seem to find anything helpful in Help. Thank you for your assistance!! |
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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. "Rusty" wrote in message ... I have a document that someone created using a hard carriage return (paragraph mark) at the end of each line. I need to quickly remove them so the document will be easier to edit. I know I can go to each paragraph mark and delete it, adding a space between words, but that's really inefficient for a lengthy document. The "Find & Replace" feature won't accept a carriage return (enter key) as a valid character to find OR replace. Can someone tell me how to save the couple of hours it will take to manually remove these paragraph marks from this document? I can't seem to find anything helpful in Help. Thank you for your assistance!! |
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Rusty wrote:
I have a document that someone created using a hard carriage return (paragraph mark) at the end of each line. I need to quickly remove them so the document will be easier to edit. I know I can go to each paragraph mark and delete it, adding a space between words, but that's really inefficient for a lengthy document. The "Find & Replace" feature won't accept a carriage return (enter key) as a valid character to find OR replace. Can someone tell me how to save the couple of hours it will take to manually remove these paragraph marks from this document? I can't seem to find anything helpful in Help. Thank you for your assistance!! Hi Rusty, The Find/Replace dialog has a bunch of codes you can use to search for special characters. To get them, click the More button in the dialog and then click the Special button that appears. The code for a paragraph mark (hard carriage return) is ^p. There are some steps you can take to make this job as easy as possible. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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