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Paragraph Character not acting like seperate paragraphs
I have a document with a number of paragraphs. When I display formatting I
see the Paragraph marker at the end of each line and Word formats them as a new line. However in the middle of the document Word is treating a number of these "paragraphs" as though they are one. For example, if I click the Bullet button, a group of the paragraphs turn to a single bulleted list with the bullet at the first paragraph in this group. I search for ^p and none of the paragraph markers in this group are not found. If I copy and paste the document into Notepad, the paragraphs at the beginning and end of the document are inserted as individual lines as expected. The "bad" paragraphs in the middle of the document are pasted as one long line. Help, how do I find/replace the formatting for the "bad" paragraph markers? |
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Paragraph Character not acting like seperate paragraphs
This search & replace will change all the returns to Word paragraph marks:
Find: ^13 Replace with: ^p Pam rpotash wrote: I have a document with a number of paragraphs. When I display formatting I see the Paragraph marker at the end of each line and Word formats them as a new line. However in the middle of the document Word is treating a number of these "paragraphs" as though they are one. For example, if I click the Bullet button, a group of the paragraphs turn to a single bulleted list with the bullet at the first paragraph in this group. I search for ^p and none of the paragraph markers in this group are not found. If I copy and paste the document into Notepad, the paragraphs at the beginning and end of the document are inserted as individual lines as expected. The "bad" paragraphs in the middle of the document are pasted as one long line. Help, how do I find/replace the formatting for the "bad" paragraph markers? -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200904/1 |
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Paragraph Character not acting like seperate paragraphs
But it will not replace manual returns entered with SHIFT+ENTER?
For those you will need to replace ^l (lower case L) or ^11 (eleven) with ^p -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org PamC via OfficeKB.com wrote: This search & replace will change all the returns to Word paragraph marks: Find: ^13 Replace with: ^p Pam rpotash wrote: I have a document with a number of paragraphs. When I display formatting I see the Paragraph marker at the end of each line and Word formats them as a new line. However in the middle of the document Word is treating a number of these "paragraphs" as though they are one. For example, if I click the Bullet button, a group of the paragraphs turn to a single bulleted list with the bullet at the first paragraph in this group. I search for ^p and none of the paragraph markers in this group are not found. If I copy and paste the document into Notepad, the paragraphs at the beginning and end of the document are inserted as individual lines as expected. The "bad" paragraphs in the middle of the document are pasted as one long line. Help, how do I find/replace the formatting for the "bad" paragraph markers? |
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Paragraph Character not acting like seperate paragraphs
You probably can't isolate the "bad" paragraph markers. But if you search for
^13 and replace with ^p that should catch all of them. The problem usually appears in text that was pasted from another application. A lot of programs use the single character with ASCII/ANSI code 13 as a "carriage return", but Word uses the two-character combination of a 13 and a 10 (carriage return and line feed) to represent a paragraph mark and displays them as a single ¶ symbol. Because of some magic in the Replace programming, ^13 will match both the single carriage returns and the true paragraph marks, and replacing with ^p will make them all paragraph marks. -- 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 Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:48:01 -0700, rpotash wrote: I have a document with a number of paragraphs. When I display formatting I see the Paragraph marker at the end of each line and Word formats them as a new line. However in the middle of the document Word is treating a number of these "paragraphs" as though they are one. For example, if I click the Bullet button, a group of the paragraphs turn to a single bulleted list with the bullet at the first paragraph in this group. I search for ^p and none of the paragraph markers in this group are not found. If I copy and paste the document into Notepad, the paragraphs at the beginning and end of the document are inserted as individual lines as expected. The "bad" paragraphs in the middle of the document are pasted as one long line. Help, how do I find/replace the formatting for the "bad" paragraph markers? |
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Paragraph Character not acting like seperate paragraphs
That fixed it. Thanks.
"Jay Freedman" wrote: You probably can't isolate the "bad" paragraph markers. But if you search for ^13 and replace with ^p that should catch all of them. The problem usually appears in text that was pasted from another application. A lot of programs use the single character with ASCII/ANSI code 13 as a "carriage return", but Word uses the two-character combination of a 13 and a 10 (carriage return and line feed) to represent a paragraph mark and displays them as a single ¶ symbol. Because of some magic in the Replace programming, ^13 will match both the single carriage returns and the true paragraph marks, and replacing with ^p will make them all paragraph marks. -- 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 Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:48:01 -0700, rpotash wrote: I have a document with a number of paragraphs. When I display formatting I see the Paragraph marker at the end of each line and Word formats them as a new line. However in the middle of the document Word is treating a number of these "paragraphs" as though they are one. For example, if I click the Bullet button, a group of the paragraphs turn to a single bulleted list with the bullet at the first paragraph in this group. I search for ^p and none of the paragraph markers in this group are not found. If I copy and paste the document into Notepad, the paragraphs at the beginning and end of the document are inserted as individual lines as expected. The "bad" paragraphs in the middle of the document are pasted as one long line. Help, how do I find/replace the formatting for the "bad" paragraph markers? |
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Paragraph Character not acting like seperate paragraphs
Thanks, but because the OP saw paragraph marks at the ends of all paragraphs,
we didn't need to find the line break character too. Pam Graham Mayor wrote: But it will not replace manual returns entered with SHIFT+ENTER? For those you will need to replace ^l (lower case L) or ^11 (eleven) with ^p This search & replace will change all the returns to Word paragraph marks: [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] long line. Help, how do I find/replace the formatting for the "bad" paragraph markers? -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200904/1 |
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