For the text I receive, to avoid losing ends of paragraphs, (if you remove all the paragraph marks you will just get one long text block), I search for two paragraph marks next to each other in Word (looks like - ^p^p) and change them to two asterisks **, I then change every paragraph mark to a space repeat the replace until no paragraph marks are left to change I then do a final search and replace on the ** and change them back to single paragraph breaks ³^p² to restore the original paragraphs.
Which method you use depends on how the text is messed up. Paul Owen From: Phil Ward <phil_w...@mac.com> Reply-To: <smug@googlegroups.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:25:03 +0100 To: SMUG <smug@googlegroups.com> Subject: [sussex_mug] Stripping Out Carriage Returns All, Does anybody know of an application that will strip out unnecessary carriage returns in a Word (or rtf or text) document. A translator has supplied me some copy in which they've inserted lots of unnecessary carriage returns, presumably in order to make the column width look like the finished document layout. Of course it's now a painful nightmare to drop the new text into InDesign. Phil -- Phil Ward T: 01273 571980 T: 07971 961987 Skype: aphilw E: phil_w...@mac.com www.myspace.com/philwardmusic <http://www.myspace.com/philwardmusic> € Freelance writer and product designer. € Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com <http://www.veilletteguitars.com> . € Consultant Designer of the Acoustic Energy AE22 nearfield monitor. € Regular contributor to Sound on Sound and Performing Musician magazines. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to s...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to s...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
