Kevin Cole wrote: > On 7/19/07, dax702 <dax702 at cox.net> wrote: > >> Yes, you understand the problem perfectly. The soft returns created by >> reaching the end of the line while typing convert to hard returns. I >> couldn't think of how to articulate what exactly was happening.. I've used >> Open Office before, it was a while ago. As I recall, their .wpd import >> filter wasn't all that great. Perhaps it has improved by now.. I'll check >> out OO again unless someone has another suggestion where I don't need >> another piece of software? >> > > Am I misremembering or wasn't there a way to save Word and WP files as > two different types of plain-text, one of which exported soft returns > as spaces rather than interpreting them as hard returns? (It's been a > while since playing with either, but I thought there was a better way > to export/save as...) > I suppose this could be true, but if you can't remember which plain text export it is, it's still frustrating.
Greg
