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Is it possible to replace soft returns with hard returns?
I would like to change several soft returns with hard returns using Word's
find-and-replace function. How do I do this? |
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Is it possible to replace soft returns with hard returns?
Try Find ^l (lower case L), replace with ^p (lower case P).
See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eanWebText.htm for further information. Hope this helps DeanH "rgmcfadden" wrote: I would like to change several soft returns with hard returns using Word's find-and-replace function. How do I do this? |
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Is it possible to replace soft returns with hard returns?
rgmcfadden wrote:
I would like to change several soft returns with hard returns using Word's find-and-replace function. How do I do this? Word doesn't have "soft returns" and "hard returns" like WordPerfect. It has automatic word wrap, manual line breaks, and paragraph breaks. If by "soft return" you mean the automatic word wrap that occurs when the next word won't fit at the end of the line, there is nothing you can do in the Replace dialog because there isn't any "soft return character" there -- that's simply a function of Word's repagination calculations. You'll have to put the cursor at the end of each line in question and press Enter. If you mean a manual line break, inserted by Shift+Enter -- when you click the ¶ button to display nonprinting characters, the line break appears as a left-pointing arrow -- then you can use the code ^l (that's a caret and a lower case ell) in the Find What box to find the manual line break and the code ^p in the Replace With box to replace the manual line break with a paragraph mark. You can also find these codes by clicking the More button in the Replace dialog and clicking the Special button. -- 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. |
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