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to: Gary Britt
from: Ellen K.
date: 2006-11-12 01:45:08
subject: Re: Word: insert all hard returns?

From: Ellen K. 

Why are you posting in html here?

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:09:01 -0500, Gary Britt
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>I don't think he's talking about a new line soft return (i.e. the
>shift-enter type).  You can search for that kind of return in
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>He's talking about where Word auto-flows the text without a any kind of
>return.  At least that was my understanding.
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> It's a reach but Openoffice can supposedly convert soft returns to hard >returns. OO is a free dl. Make a copy of your doc pass it through OO and see >what happens > >http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/ 2005/12/finding_and_rep.html">http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/12/fi nding_and_rep.html >In the Find and Replace window, enter the symbol for what you want to search >for, in the Find field. Here's a quick reference to the symbols to enter for >what you're looking for. > > a.. Regular carriage returns are $ > b.. Soft returns inserted with a Shift Return, are \n > c.. Just an empty paragraph, i.e. a carriage return but with no text on >that line, is ^$ > d.. Tabs are \t >http://www" target="new">http://www.">http://www.openoffice.org/">http://www. openoffice.org/ > > >"Monte Davis" <monte.davis{at}verizon.net>">mailto:monte.davis{at}verizon.net"><monte.davis{at}verizon.net> wrote in message >news:3lfmk2tojeqn5isj77kojscp1m4h3t4r48{at}4ax.com... > > > Gary Britt <glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com>">mailto:glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com"><glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com> wrote: > > > > Enter ^l (that's an L) for a manual line break (soft line return) > > > Maybe my terminology is wrong. By "soft" line return I meant the >line-end breaks that Word itself assigns -- those which would move >automatically if the margins are changed. > >*Those* are the places I want nail down (with either a ^l or ^p, >doesn't matter to the document's appearance). And *those* are the >places where there is no search/replaceable special character... > > > >Monte Davis >http">http://montedavis.livejournal.com">http ://montedavis.livejournal.com > > > > > > > > > --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
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