Guest Jeff Rosiek Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 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 3c273 Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 Re: Deleting Hard Returns in a Word Document Fina and replace "^p" without the quotes. Louis "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. > -- > Jeff A. Rosiek
Guest Richard in AZ Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 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. | -- | 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 Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 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. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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