[Joe]

Hi,

I have a 70 page MS Word document and it has just too many of €œtext-wrapping
breaks€�. I was wondering if there is a way to remove them using €œFind and
Replace€� rather than deleting each one of them manually as there are just too
many in this document.

Thanks,

Joe

[WordBanter AI]

Hi Joe,

Yes, you can definitely use the "Find and Replace" feature in Microsoft Word to remove text-wrapping breaks. Here are the steps:

1. Open your document in Microsoft Word.
2. Press "Ctrl + H" on your keyboard to open the "Find and Replace" dialog box.
3. In the "Find what" field, type "^b" (without the quotes). This is the code for a text-wrapping break in Word.
4. Leave the "Replace with" field blank.
5. Click on the "Replace All" button.

This will remove all the text-wrapping breaks in your document. However, please note that this may affect the formatting of your document, so it's always a good idea to save a backup copy before making any changes.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you sure they're text-wrapping breaks and not line breaks? If the
latter, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm. I don't
know of any way to search for text-wrapping breaks unless they are also
detected by ^l.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Joe" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have a 70 page MS Word document and it has just too many of
€œtext-wrapping
breaks€�. I was wondering if there is a way to remove them using €œFind and
Replace€� rather than deleting each one of them manually as there are just
too
many in this document.

Thanks,

Joe

[Angel Bivins]

Joe,
If by "text wrapping breaks" you mean Manual line breaks, then do this:
Choose Edit, Replace, and click on More to get the options.
With your cursor in the Find What field, Click on the "Special" button to
drop down a list and choose "Manual Line Break".
Then place your cursor in the Replace with field and hit the space bar once.
Click replace All and see if you get the results you're looking for.
--
Angel Bivins
WordAngel Document Design
www.wordangel.com


"Joe" wrote:

Hi,

I have a 70 page MS Word document and it has just too many of €œtext-wrapping
breaks€�. I was wondering if there is a way to remove them using €œFind and
Replace€� rather than deleting each one of them manually as there are just too
many in this document.

Thanks,

Joe

[Cindy M.]

Hi ?B?Sm9l?=,

I have a 70 page MS Word document and it has just too many of €œtext-wrapping
breaks€�. I was wondering if there is a way to remove them using €œFind and
Replace€� rather than deleting each one of them manually as there are just too
many in this document.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "text wrapping breaks"?

Do you mean where someone has pressed Enter? Or Shift-Enter?

If you display the non-printing characters (press the "backwards P" button in the
toolbar), what symbol do you see at these locations?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Joe]

Thanks a lot. It worked. Yes "text-wrapping breaks" must be same as "Manual
Line Breaks" and are represented by ^l. On the web I came across the term
"Text-Wrapping Breaks".

Joe


"Angel Bivins" wrote:

Joe,
If by "text wrapping breaks" you mean Manual line breaks, then do this:
Choose Edit, Replace, and click on More to get the options.
With your cursor in the Find What field, Click on the "Special" button to
drop down a list and choose "Manual Line Break".
Then place your cursor in the Replace with field and hit the space bar once.
Click replace All and see if you get the results you're looking for.
--
Angel Bivins
WordAngel Document Design
www.wordangel.com


"Joe" wrote:

Hi,

I have a 70 page MS Word document and it has just too many of €œtext-wrapping
breaks€�. I was wondering if there is a way to remove them using €œFind and
Replace€� rather than deleting each one of them manually as there are just too
many in this document.

Thanks,

Joe

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can insert a line break with Shift+Enter. To insert a text-wrapping
break, you must (AFAIK) use Insert | Break.

--
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.

"Joe" wrote in message
...
Thanks a lot. It worked. Yes "text-wrapping breaks" must be same as
"Manual
Line Breaks" and are represented by ^l. On the web I came across the term
"Text-Wrapping Breaks".

Joe


"Angel Bivins" wrote:

Joe,
If by "text wrapping breaks" you mean Manual line breaks, then do this:
Choose Edit, Replace, and click on More to get the options.
With your cursor in the Find What field, Click on the "Special" button
to
drop down a list and choose "Manual Line Break".
Then place your cursor in the Replace with field and hit the space bar
once.
Click replace All and see if you get the results you're looking for.
--
Angel Bivins
WordAngel Document Design
www.wordangel.com


"Joe" wrote:

Hi,

I have a 70 page MS Word document and it has just too many of
€œtext-wrapping
breaks€�. I was wondering if there is a way to remove them using €œFind
and
Replace€� rather than deleting each one of them manually as there are
just too
many in this document.

Thanks,

Joe

[Mohamed Ali Saudi Oger Taif K.S.A]

If by "text wrapping breaks" you mean Manual line breaks, then do this:
Choose Edit, Replace, and click on More to get the options.
With your cursor in the Find What field, Click on the "Special" button to
drop down a list and choose "Paragraph Mark".(^p)
Then place your cursor in the Replace with field and hit the space bar once.
Click replace All and see if you get the results you're looking for.

[Mohamed Ali Saudi Oger Taif K.S.A[_2_]]

"text wrapping breaks" you mean Manual line breaks, then do this:
Choose Edit, Replace, and click on More to get the options.
With your cursor in the Find What field, Click on the "Special" button to
drop down a list and choose "Paragraph Mark".(^p)
Then place your cursor in the Replace with field and hit the space bar once.
Click replace All and see if you get the results you're looking for.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

First, a text-wrapping break is not the same as a line break. Second, the
Find and Replace code for a manual line break is ^l, not ^p.

--
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.

"Mohamed Ali Saudi Oger Taif K.S.A" Mohamed Ali Saudi Oger Taif
wrote in message
...
If by "text wrapping breaks" you mean Manual line breaks, then do this:
Choose Edit, Replace, and click on More to get the options.
With your cursor in the Find What field, Click on the "Special" button to
drop down a list and choose "Paragraph Mark".(^p)
Then place your cursor in the Replace with field and hit the space bar
once.
Click replace All and see if you get the results you're looking for.