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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Another MS-Word QUestion.....
Message-ID: <3113@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 18:18:56 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.153219.29086@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Organization: Iron City, USA
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In article <1991Jan24.153219.29086@cs.dal.ca> paixao@ug.cs.dal.ca (Nuno M. Paixao) writes:
|I have another question about MS-WORD.
|
|I find myself dowdloading ASCII files from here, USENET NEWS, and sometimes,
| I would like to bring them into my word processor. Is there anyway to make
| MS-WORD
|strip out all the carriage return at the end of each line, and replace them
| witha space. I would need to do this, so that for one thing, I could justify
| my 

Well, here's how I do it.

Imagine that this is our downloaded file, and that "@" is a carriage return
marker as it would show up in Word.

I have another question about MS-WORD.@
@
I find myself dowdloading ASCII files from here,@
USENET NEWS, and sometimes, I would like to bring@
them into my word processor. Is there anyway to make@
MS-WORD strip out all the carriage return at the end@
of each line, and replace them witha space.@
@
Any suggestions?@
@

OK, notice that there are two "@" between each paragraph and just one at the
end of each line.

Using the "change" command, change all occurences of two carriage returns in a
row to something that will never occur naturally in the document, like ")(*&".

In WordSpeak, you would change all ^p^p to )(*&  .

Now, change all single carriage returns to spaces:

Again, in WordSpeak: change all ^p to  .

Finally, change all ")(*&" to carriage returns.

change all )(*& to ^p   .

Of course, if you want to keep the headers intact, you'll have to add a few 
more returns in there, as the above method will treat the USENET article header
as one paragraph and strip all the returns out of it.

Alternatively, you could select the first paragraph, change all ^p to space, 
and repeat this for each paragraph in the document, bypassing the )(*& nonsense
entirely.  This will take longer, however.

chaz


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