Reflowing text in Word 2

[kylebellamy]

I have a document that a customer gave me to edit that is doen in Word. The problem is that every single line has a paragraph marker at the end of it and it's roughtly 40 pages in 12pt type, sinlge space.

Is there a way to get word to remove all the paragraph markers as the text is only half page in witdth.

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[pbrodsky]

search and replace can do that, but be careful about handling real paragraph breaks. Replace paragraph marks (^p) with single space.

if you have real paragraph breaks, you can stick in some character (manually e.g. %) and then change those back to ^p.

 

[FuzziusNavus]

if the real paragraphs are separated by two paragraph markers, you can search for those separately and replace them with a set of characters that you would not find in the document (I typically use %%*%%). Replace paragraph marks with spaces. (you may find that you also have to find two consecutive spaces afterwards).



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[Madawc]

Alternatively:
a) Add a blank paragraph wherever there should be a real paragraph break
b) Replace ^p^p by ^l, manual line break.
c) Replace ^p by a single space
d) Replace ^l by ^p.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK)