From: "Glenn Meadows" 

It's "Word Wrap" you're talking about, and now sure how you'd
search for where to put things.

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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:454b94e8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> 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 Word.  He's
> talking about where Word auto-flows the text without a any kind of return.
> At least that was my understanding.
>
> Gary
>
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
> 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
> 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.openoffice.org/
>
>
> "Monte Davis"  wrote in message
> news:3lfmk2tojeqn5isj77kojscp1m4h3t4r48{at}4ax.com...
>  Gary Britt  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://montedavis.livejournal.com
>
>
>
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