[mso] Re: Re-formatting a Word paragraph
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:02:45 -0500
Like I said, Jan....if you go look at the link I sent you to see the
character marks, you will see that the little degree symbol is a
non-breaking space.
Go here and see what most of them mean, then you can use them from the
Special button in Find/Replace:
http://personal-computer-tutor.com/specialcharacters.htm
And if the text is just plain text, then deleting the paragraph markers
won't make any difference at all.
It depends on how many of these paragraph markers you want and how many
you don't want.....sometimes deleting them all, then just manually
putting back the ones you DO want is faster...it all depends on the
document.
Linda
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jan Beasley
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:29 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Re-formatting a Word paragraph
At 01:26 PM 12/4/2002, you wrote:
>if they truly are hard returns (you can tell this
>if you turn on your hidden characters and see a backwards P at the end
>of these lines...turn on hidden characters by clicking on the
>backwards
>P on your toolbar)
That's how I knew they were hard returns (I'm very attached to my
hidden characters button!)...I played around with it, and although
I still have to go through symbol by symbol, it's much easier using
the Find/Replace. I replaced the hard returns with line breaks,
then set it to replace the line breaks with a space (otherwise when
the line break is deleted, most of the time words run
together). When it hits a paragraph that needs to be there, I just
skipped it. For a quick and dirty fix, this works. However, by
removing the paragraph markers, I realize that I delete formatting
that might be attached to it. But since the stuff I'm copying is
plain text, would it really matter?
One other question. When a space was inserted, instead of the
usual "dot" that signifies a space, there appeared what looks like
a "degree" symbol (open circle). What is this?
Thanks, Linda. I forget about the Find feature too often, and I
learned some helpful stuff there.
Jan
Jan Beasley ~ Virtual Assistant
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