To: ROBERT LIDGREN
Subject: Re: STRIPPING PARAGRAPH MARKE
RL>QUESTION:  When using Word for Windows, is there some way to "strip"
  >           those pesky paragraph markers (hard breaks) at the end of
  >           EVERY LINE which seem to be included with text files we
  >           download here at Log. Sol and also those we get from the
  >           Internet?
RL>           Yes, I KNOW it can be done by manually deleting every one
  >           of the little buggers (except for "normal" paragraph
  >           breaks) but I'd like some way to do it globally for the
  >           entire document.                       ^^^^^^^^
RL>           Have any of you folks been able to solve this problem?
Sure... just go to the edit menu and click on "Replace..."  The Replace
menu has a "Special" button at the bottom that enables you to search for
special characters such as the paragraph character.  Then just put a
Space character as the substitute.  Of course this will remove ALL
paragraphing so you will have to figure out where the original
paragraphs were.
Another trick is to do the search for two paragraph symbols in a row and
substitute that with either another special character that is not used
in the document or with a word like PARAGRAPH (all caps).  Then perform
the first trick above.  The third step would be to search for PARAGRAPH
(all caps) and substitute the word with one paragraph character.
Of course you could write a macro to do it too.... :^)
I'll leave that exercise to you.... ;^)
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