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From: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What do you use to remove Paragraph Returns from your Text?
Message-ID: <272@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 06:32:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 06:32:13 1987
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In article <2089@sputnik.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>As a frequent downloader of Unix articles to my Macintosh, I have a great
>need to have a utility that removes the Return characters from the ends of
>every line in a paragraph.
>
>                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer

I use MS-Word 3.01 to perform this function. It really is quite simple,
it only requires three 'search&replace' sequences (oh yes, a specific
utility would be better... but then again.. ;)

What you want is to remove all the returns at the end of the lines.
But removing all returns would also remove paragraph formatting. So what
you do first is to change all _double_ returns (at the end of a paragraph)
to a temporary code (like two asterisks: **). This is achieved with:

Find: ^13^13 (you actually type the carret in the dialog box)
Replace with: ** (or whatever unique code you like)

Now it's time to remove all _single_ returns (at the end of each line)

Find: ^13 (again, also type the carret)
Replace with: <zilch>

And now turn the temporary code back into double returns:

Find: **
Replace with: ^13^13

That's it.

        Paul Molenaar

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