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Remove paragraphs
I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many
paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please afd |
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Remove paragraphs
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "afdmello" wrote in message ... I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please afd |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "afdmello" wrote in message ... I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please afd |
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Remove paragraphs
If you just need to remove the excess paragraph marks (and they really are
paragraph marks, which I suspect they are) you can use Find and Replace: Search for ^p^p and replace with ^p so at least one paragraph mark is left at the end of each paragraph. That way you can still see the paragraphs. If you really want to remove all paragraph marks, replace with nothing. Note that you may have to repeat the process a few times before all excess marks are replaced. After doing this you could replace ^p with ^p^t, a paragraph mark and a tab. That way each paragraph will start with an indent which I feel is easier to read. Willy "afdmello" wrote: I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please afd . |
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Remove paragraphs
If you just need to remove the excess paragraph marks (and they really are
paragraph marks, which I suspect they are) you can use Find and Replace: Search for ^p^p and replace with ^p so at least one paragraph mark is left at the end of each paragraph. That way you can still see the paragraphs. If you really want to remove all paragraph marks, replace with nothing. Note that you may have to repeat the process a few times before all excess marks are replaced. After doing this you could replace ^p with ^p^t, a paragraph mark and a tab. That way each paragraph will start with an indent which I feel is easier to read. Willy "afdmello" wrote: I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please afd . |
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You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t, but it would be better
to apply a first-line indent to each of the paragraphs, better still to apply a style that includes the first line indent, such as Body Text First Indent. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Willy" wrote in message ... If you just need to remove the excess paragraph marks (and they really are paragraph marks, which I suspect they are) you can use Find and Replace: Search for ^p^p and replace with ^p so at least one paragraph mark is left at the end of each paragraph. That way you can still see the paragraphs. If you really want to remove all paragraph marks, replace with nothing. Note that you may have to repeat the process a few times before all excess marks are replaced. After doing this you could replace ^p with ^p^t, a paragraph mark and a tab. That way each paragraph will start with an indent which I feel is easier to read. Willy "afdmello" wrote: I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please afd . |
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Remove paragraphs
You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t, but it would be better
to apply a first-line indent to each of the paragraphs, better still to apply a style that includes the first line indent, such as Body Text First Indent. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Willy" wrote in message ... If you just need to remove the excess paragraph marks (and they really are paragraph marks, which I suspect they are) you can use Find and Replace: Search for ^p^p and replace with ^p so at least one paragraph mark is left at the end of each paragraph. That way you can still see the paragraphs. If you really want to remove all paragraph marks, replace with nothing. Note that you may have to repeat the process a few times before all excess marks are replaced. After doing this you could replace ^p with ^p^t, a paragraph mark and a tab. That way each paragraph will start with an indent which I feel is easier to read. Willy "afdmello" wrote: I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please afd . |
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Hi Suzanne,
You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t This will only work when there are exactly two paragraph marks between paragraphs. If there are more they will not all be found on the first pass and if some of the pairs have been replaced by ^p^t they won't be found on the next pass(es). Willy "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t, but it would be better to apply a first-line indent to each of the paragraphs, better still to apply a style that includes the first line indent, such as Body Text First Indent. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Willy" wrote in message ... If you just need to remove the excess paragraph marks (and they really are paragraph marks, which I suspect they are) you can use Find and Replace: Search for ^p^p and replace with ^p so at least one paragraph mark is left at the end of each paragraph. That way you can still see the paragraphs. If you really want to remove all paragraph marks, replace with nothing. Note that you may have to repeat the process a few times before all excess marks are replaced. After doing this you could replace ^p with ^p^t, a paragraph mark and a tab. That way each paragraph will start with an indent which I feel is easier to read. Willy "afdmello" wrote: I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please afd . . |
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Hi Suzanne, You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t This will only work when there are exactly two paragraph marks between paragraphs. If there are more they will not all be found on the first pass and if some of the pairs have been replaced by ^p^t they won't be found on the next pass(es). Willy "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t, but it would be better to apply a first-line indent to each of the paragraphs, better still to apply a style that includes the first line indent, such as Body Text First Indent. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Willy" wrote in message ... If you just need to remove the excess paragraph marks (and they really are paragraph marks, which I suspect they are) you can use Find and Replace: Search for ^p^p and replace with ^p so at least one paragraph mark is left at the end of each paragraph. That way you can still see the paragraphs. If you really want to remove all paragraph marks, replace with nothing. Note that you may have to repeat the process a few times before all excess marks are replaced. After doing this you could replace ^p with ^p^t, a paragraph mark and a tab. That way each paragraph will start with an indent which I feel is easier to read. Willy "afdmello" wrote: I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please afd . . |
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Remove paragraphs
It's like a Towers of Hanoi puzzle. You have to use some _third_ mark:
first replace all ^p^p with ^l (or any other character that doesn't appear anywhere in the document yet), then replace all ^p with either nothing or space (depending on how the text was formatted), and then replace the intermediate character with ^p. On May 15, 12:11*pm, Willy wrote: Hi Suzanne, You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t This will only work when there are exactly two paragraph marks between paragraphs. If there are more they will not all be found on the first pass and if some of the pairs have been replaced by ^p^t they won't be found on the next pass(es). Willy "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t, but it would be better to apply a first-line indent to each of the paragraphs, better still to apply a style that includes the first line indent, such as Body Text First Indent. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Willy" wrote in message ... If you just need to remove the excess paragraph marks (and they really are paragraph marks, which I suspect they are) you can use Find and Replace: Search for ^p^p and replace with ^p so at least one paragraph mark is left at the end of each paragraph. That way you can still see the paragraphs. If you really want to remove all paragraph marks, replace with nothing. Note that you may have to repeat the process a few times before all excess marks are replaced. After doing this you could replace ^p with ^p^t, a paragraph mark and a tab. That way each paragraph will start with an indent which I feel is easier to read. Willy "afdmello" wrote: I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them *using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please |
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Remove paragraphs
It's like a Towers of Hanoi puzzle. You have to use some _third_ mark:
first replace all ^p^p with ^l (or any other character that doesn't appear anywhere in the document yet), then replace all ^p with either nothing or space (depending on how the text was formatted), and then replace the intermediate character with ^p. On May 15, 12:11*pm, Willy wrote: Hi Suzanne, You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t This will only work when there are exactly two paragraph marks between paragraphs. If there are more they will not all be found on the first pass and if some of the pairs have been replaced by ^p^t they won't be found on the next pass(es). Willy "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t, but it would be better to apply a first-line indent to each of the paragraphs, better still to apply a style that includes the first line indent, such as Body Text First Indent. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Willy" wrote in message ... If you just need to remove the excess paragraph marks (and they really are paragraph marks, which I suspect they are) you can use Find and Replace: Search for ^p^p and replace with ^p so at least one paragraph mark is left at the end of each paragraph. That way you can still see the paragraphs. If you really want to remove all paragraph marks, replace with nothing. Note that you may have to repeat the process a few times before all excess marks are replaced. After doing this you could replace ^p with ^p^t, a paragraph mark and a tab. That way each paragraph will start with an indent which I feel is easier to read. Willy "afdmello" wrote: I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them *using find and replace? what is the syntax to be used please |
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