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No indent after pilcrow (paragraph mark)
I have a long document that has been copied and pasted into Word that
I'm trying to fix. At the moment there are large slabs of text where new paragraphs are not indented. I want to add indents. Although I can search for a paragraph break with "^p" it doesn't seem to find every actual paragraph break (which is represented in the hidden characters by a pilcrow or backwards 'P' - ¶). If I add an indent using the rulers at the top of the page, it will add an indent to the very first paragraph, but not to the others. I have to manually go through, hit delete then enter to show the document that I really do want a new paragraph there - and that an automatic indent is required. Is there any way to do this automatically? |
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No indent after pilcrow (paragraph mark)
It sounds as if the entire document is a single paragraph. Are there spaces
between what appear to be paragraphs? If so, then, with any luck, they're created with two line breaks. If so, you can replace two line breaks (^l^l) with a paragraph break (^p), and then you can apply your indent to all of them. Also, if there are actual line breaks represented by a pilcrow, you can usually find those by searching for ^13. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "qlfwyyd" wrote in message ... I have a long document that has been copied and pasted into Word that I'm trying to fix. At the moment there are large slabs of text where new paragraphs are not indented. I want to add indents. Although I can search for a paragraph break with "^p" it doesn't seem to find every actual paragraph break (which is represented in the hidden characters by a pilcrow or backwards 'P' - ¶). If I add an indent using the rulers at the top of the page, it will add an indent to the very first paragraph, but not to the others. I have to manually go through, hit delete then enter to show the document that I really do want a new paragraph there - and that an automatic indent is required. Is there any way to do this automatically? |
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No indent after pilcrow (paragraph mark)
Thanks so much. The ^13 did it!
On Jan 20, 2:12*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if the entire document is a single paragraph. Are there spaces between what appear to be paragraphs? If so, then, with any luck, they're created with two line breaks. If so, you can replace two line breaks (^l^l) with a paragraph break (^p), and then you can apply your indent to all of them. Also, if there are actual line breaks represented by a pilcrow, you can usually find those by searching for ^13. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "qlfwyyd" wrote in message ... I have a long document that has been copied and pasted into Word that I'm trying to fix. At the moment there are large slabs of text where new paragraphs are not indented. I want to add indents. Although I can search for a paragraph break with "^p" it doesn't seem to find every actual paragraph break (which is represented in the hidden characters by a pilcrow or backwards 'P' - ). If I add an indent using the rulers at the top of the page, it will add an indent to the very first paragraph, but not to the others. I have to manually go through, hit delete then enter to show the document that I really do want a new paragraph there - and that an automatic indent is required. Is there any way to do this automatically? |
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No indent after pilcrow (paragraph mark)
I'm glad that helped, and thank you for your feedback.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "qlfwyyd" wrote in message ... Thanks so much. The ^13 did it! On Jan 20, 2:12 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if the entire document is a single paragraph. Are there spaces between what appear to be paragraphs? If so, then, with any luck, they're created with two line breaks. If so, you can replace two line breaks (^l^l) with a paragraph break (^p), and then you can apply your indent to all of them. Also, if there are actual line breaks represented by a pilcrow, you can usually find those by searching for ^13. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "qlfwyyd" wrote in message ... I have a long document that has been copied and pasted into Word that I'm trying to fix. At the moment there are large slabs of text where new paragraphs are not indented. I want to add indents. Although I can search for a paragraph break with "^p" it doesn't seem to find every actual paragraph break (which is represented in the hidden characters by a pilcrow or backwards 'P' - ). If I add an indent using the rulers at the top of the page, it will add an indent to the very first paragraph, but not to the others. I have to manually go through, hit delete then enter to show the document that I really do want a new paragraph there - and that an automatic indent is required. Is there any way to do this automatically? |
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No indent after pilcrow (paragraph mark)
I'm glad that helped, and thank you for your feedback.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "qlfwyyd" wrote in message ... Thanks so much. The ^13 did it! On Jan 20, 2:12 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if the entire document is a single paragraph. Are there spaces between what appear to be paragraphs? If so, then, with any luck, they're created with two line breaks. If so, you can replace two line breaks (^l^l) with a paragraph break (^p), and then you can apply your indent to all of them. Also, if there are actual line breaks represented by a pilcrow, you can usually find those by searching for ^13. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "qlfwyyd" wrote in message ... I have a long document that has been copied and pasted into Word that I'm trying to fix. At the moment there are large slabs of text where new paragraphs are not indented. I want to add indents. Although I can search for a paragraph break with "^p" it doesn't seem to find every actual paragraph break (which is represented in the hidden characters by a pilcrow or backwards 'P' - ). If I add an indent using the rulers at the top of the page, it will add an indent to the very first paragraph, but not to the others. I have to manually go through, hit delete then enter to show the document that I really do want a new paragraph there - and that an automatic indent is required. Is there any way to do this automatically? |
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No indent after pilcrow (paragraph mark)
Thanks so much. The ^13 did it!
On Jan 20, 2:12*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if the entire document is a single paragraph. Are there spaces between what appear to be paragraphs? If so, then, with any luck, they're created with two line breaks. If so, you can replace two line breaks (^l^l) with a paragraph break (^p), and then you can apply your indent to all of them. Also, if there are actual line breaks represented by a pilcrow, you can usually find those by searching for ^13. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "qlfwyyd" wrote in message ... I have a long document that has been copied and pasted into Word that I'm trying to fix. At the moment there are large slabs of text where new paragraphs are not indented. I want to add indents. Although I can search for a paragraph break with "^p" it doesn't seem to find every actual paragraph break (which is represented in the hidden characters by a pilcrow or backwards 'P' - ). If I add an indent using the rulers at the top of the page, it will add an indent to the very first paragraph, but not to the others. I have to manually go through, hit delete then enter to show the document that I really do want a new paragraph there - and that an automatic indent is required. Is there any way to do this automatically? |
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No indent after pilcrow (paragraph mark)
It sounds as if the entire document is a single paragraph. Are there spaces between what appear to be paragraphs? If so, then, with any luck, they're created with two line breaks. If so, you can replace two line breaks (^l^l) with a paragraph break (^p), and then you can apply your indent to all of them. Also, if there are actual line breaks represented by a pilcrow, you can usually find those by searching for ^13. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "qlfwyyd" wrote in message ... I have a long document that has been copied and pasted into Word that I'm trying to fix. At the moment there are large slabs of text where new paragraphs are not indented. I want to add indents. Although I can search for a paragraph break with "^p" it doesn't seem to find every actual paragraph break (which is represented in the hidden characters by a pilcrow or backwards 'P' - ¶). If I add an indent using the rulers at the top of the page, it will add an indent to the very first paragraph, but not to the others. I have to manually go through, hit delete then enter to show the document that I really do want a new paragraph there - and that an automatic indent is required. Is there any way to do this automatically? |
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