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From: dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton)
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Subject: Re: Another MS-Word QUestion.....
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.180341.23408@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 18:03:41 GMT
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[Nuno M. Paixao asks if there's a way to make Word strip the carriage returns
at the ends of lines]

In article <1991Jan24.173516.22098@midway.uchicago.edu> xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird) replies:

>In the Change dialog box, you can find CRs by entering ^p and
>replacing with a space. Hit change all and the work is finished. This will
								  ^^^^^^^^^
>of course also remove all the CRs that are separating paragraphs.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you have blank lines between your paragraphs, you can avoid this
problem by remembering that at the end of a paragraph, you'll have two
carriage returns right together (one at the end of the last line in a
paragraph, one at the end of the blank line which separates the
current paragraph from the next one).  If you use the Replace All
facility to replace each CR with something like 'XXXX', you'll get an
'XXXX' at each former end of line within the paragraph, and 'XXXXXXXX'
at the end of the paragraph.  Just use Replace All to replace the
single CRs 'XXXX' with spaces and the double CRs 'XXXXXXXX' with
carriage returns, and you've got it.

>X	           David Baird			xdab@midway.uchicago.edu      X



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