[mso] Re: Re-formatting a Word paragraph
- From: Don Elias <donelias@xxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 01:16:00 -0600
I have been trying to figure out how to do that for some
time also and have basically concluded that there is
NO easy way. I have tried this and it works - kind of???
Sometimes there is a space before the hard return
and sometimes not - all in the same article or even
in the same paragraph. Using find/replace, replace
all carriage returns with a space AND carriage return.
Now replace all space-space-c/r with space-c/r.
Set the find replace to replace a c/r with nothing and
hilight all of a paragraph exept the last line and do a
'"replace all" and that paragraph will be done. You will
have to repeat it for each paragraph in the article.
Another idea I have is to replace a c/r-c/r (which
would indicate the end of a paragraph) with something
like c-/r-xyz-c/r. Then replace all c/r's (assuming that
each is preceded by a space) with nothing. Then
replace all instances of xyz (or whatever delimiter
you used) with 2 carriage returns to restore the
paragraph breaks.
The problem I find is there is always some special
circumstance of line configuration that gets screwed
up by trying to automate the process.
Good luck!!!!!!!!!!
Don Elias
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 12:54:54 -0600 Jan Beasley
<jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Is there an easy way to change the line lengths on text pasted into
> a Word document? At times I copy text from an email message or
> other source, and save into a Word document, and at some point may
> want to print the document. When the copied text has hard returns
> at the end of every line, and the line lengths are pretty short, it
> makes for a very long document. I'd like to increase the length of
> the lines for a shorter printed document.
>
> By easy I mean not having to go through and do this manually by
> deleting the hard returns <g>.
>
> I would also like to add that I've been doing a lot of lurking on
> this list since I signed up and have learned so much. Even the
> discussions that slide into what amounts to a foreign language to
> me (the recent VBA stuff) are interesting. (Although a preview is
> coming - I'm taking Dian's Word 301 in January). I am continually
> amazed at the willingness of the group to help others solve problems.
>
> Thanks to all!
>
> Jan
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