[bksvol-discuss] Re: Microsoft WORD 2002 paragraph marks?

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 20:30:55 -0700

Hi Charisma,

Uh, I sure hope you didn't just turn your whole book into a single
paragraph!  Yikes!  But maybe I'm misunderstanding what you did.

Yes, your book will stay the way it is if you close and reopen.  

This profusion of unnecessary paragraph marks happens because, sometimes,
OCR is set to reproduce the page as it appeared in the book with line
endings where the left and right margins of the actual paper would be.  It's
a setting that can be fixed, if the scanner of the book knows how.  I made
this happen to books for a long time before someone told me what was
happening!  

And ^p^m^p is the character string denoting paragraph mark, page break,
paragraph mark.  If you replaced something with that, what you put in its
place is a page break surrounded by blank lines.

Hope that answers your questions.

Please ask if you still have questions.

Mayrie

 

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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Microsoft WORD 2002 paragraph marks?

Cindy,

OK, I just tried that and it turns out that the paragraph mark is ^p.
I replaced all with a space and they all disappeared, but I sure as heck
would not have wanted to do that BEFORE I did the formatting to find chapter
beginnings and subheadings and such. When I did it with those done I was
able to see right where I needed to do a return to separate a heading of
some type.

The questions is, will it STAY this way after I close and reopen the rtf?

And why are they there in the first place?

And why doesn't ^p^m^p work to get rid of them?

Thanks   smile
Charisma
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