See the special characters options replace all ^p^p a double end of paragraph with ^p^l an end of paragraph and an end of line
Then - having got an end of line everywhere you want end of paragraph's remove all the end of paragraphs replace all ^p with nothing and - finally replace all ^l end of line with ^p end of paragraph Finally, check the end of the document - and save as a doc 'cos saving as a DOS ASCII file will just put the ^p's back JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slattery, Tim - BLS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 5:51 PM Subject: MS Word Autoformat > Once in a while I need to import and format an ASCII plain-text document > into MS Word. These files would have carriage returns at the end of each > line and an extra CR (blank line) between paragraphs. It seems to me that > autoformatting one or more paragraphs used to remove hard carriage returns > within the paragraphs, but Word 2002 doesn't seem to do that. > > Is that capability someplace I'm not seeing, or am I out of luck? > > -- > Tim Slattery > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html > Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
