Removing paragraph marks 1

[elanus2]

I frequently copy and paste some text into a Word document that has lines that do not fill the width of the page because they are terminated by paragraph marks (or are they CR/LFs?).

Is there a simple way to remove these paragraph marks and allow Word to determine the length of lines?

 

[Dave1367]

Yep,

Do a search and replace (Ctrl H) and search for ^p and replace with nothing.

hope that's what you are looking for

Dave

 

[elanus2]

Thanks Dave, that's exactly what I needed. I presume from your reply that there are codes for all the document characters. Where do I find the rest?

 

[Dave1367]

When you do a searach or replace there should be a "More" button. If you click on that the window will reveal more options. If you click on the "Special" button it will list the different characters you can search for.

cheers

Dave

 

[jbobby]

If you want paragraphs to space properly, search and replace all back-to-back ^p, replace them with someother unique charachter or use what I do three forward slashes ///. Then replace all single ^p, do another search and replace, replace the 3 slashes with a single paragraph marker. Also, instead of replace with nothing, replace with a space, or some of your words will be stuck together.

 

[mrstaggart]

Don't forget, ^l (lowercase L) is the manual line break - those annoying left-pointing arrows so common when you copy from an e-mail message.