Deleting Hard Returns in a Word Document

[Guest Jeff Rosiek]

I copied in some text from a pdf file and pasted it into Word. I have

Windows XP with Word 2003. When I pasted the text, it puts hard returns at

the end of each line. Is there a simple way I can replace these returns with

a space and no return so that the text flows as it should? Thanks for your

help.

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Jeff A. Rosiek

[Guest 3c273]

Re: Deleting Hard Returns in a Word Document

 

Fina and replace "^p" without the quotes.

Louis

 

"Jeff Rosiek" <jrosiek@tbegroup.com> wrote in message

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> I copied in some text from a pdf file and pasted it into Word. I have

> Windows XP with Word 2003. When I pasted the text, it puts hard returns

at

> the end of each line. Is there a simple way I can replace these returns

with

> a space and no return so that the text flows as it should? Thanks for

your

> help.

> --

> Jeff A. Rosiek

[Guest Richard in AZ]

Re: Deleting Hard Returns in a Word Document

 

 

"Jeff Rosiek" <jrosiek@tbegroup.com> wrote in message

news:A203E0BA-0B80-4251-8EBD-A22ADA9836EF@microsoft.com...

|I copied in some text from a pdf file and pasted it into Word. I have

| Windows XP with Word 2003. When I pasted the text, it puts hard returns at

| the end of each line. Is there a simple way I can replace these returns with

| a space and no return so that the text flows as it should? Thanks for your

| help.

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| Jeff A. Rosiek

 

This would be best answered in a Office newsgroup.

But Yes and No depending on your definition of "simple".

In Word you can use the "find and replace" feature to replace the hard return (paragraph) input with

a "space".

You can do this globally and it will remove ALL of the hard returns, including the ones you want to

keep.

But if you first highlight the one paragraph at a time and invoke the replacement, it will keep the

ending paragraph mark.

But now you have to do this one paragraph at a time.

If you are real lucky your document will have two hard returns at the end of a true paragraph.

Then you set the find and replace feature to replace a pair of returns with another character. Then

globally replace all the hard returns and then go back and replace the substitute character with a

hard return.

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Deleting Hard Returns in a Word Document

 

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 07:04:01 -0700, Jeff Rosiek <jrosiek@tbegroup.com>

wrote:

> I copied in some text from a pdf file and pasted it into Word. I have

> Windows XP with Word 2003. When I pasted the text, it puts hard returns at

> the end of each line. Is there a simple way I can replace these returns with

> a space and no return so that the text flows as it should? Thanks for your

> help.

 

 

The fact that you are using Windows XP is irrelevant. This is a

question about Word, and you would be most likely to get the help you

need if you would ask in a Word newsgroup, not here in a Windows XP

one.

 

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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