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From: rcojs@gecko.co.rmit.oz (James Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word - How do I reformat lines into a single paragraph?
Message-ID: <436@gecko.co.rmit.oz>
Date: 15 Dec 89 04:59:43 GMT
References: <1989Dec10.025722.424@smsc.sony.com>
Organization: RMIT Comm & Elec Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
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From article <1989Dec10.025722.424@smsc.sony.com>, by dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott):
> It seems to me that there should be a way for me to select an area of
> text and have it reformatted into a single paragraph, but I haven't
> found anything in the documentation.  All I've found is how to remove
> a single paragraph mark, and that's pretty tedious in most cases.
> 
> Can someone give me a hint?
> 
> -- 
> David Elliott
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> "It's bigger than a breadbox, and smaller than the planet Jupiter."

One solution is to select the text you want to combine, then use
the "change" command to replace ^p (paragraph mark) with a space.
In the dialog box, select "change selection", and the selected text
will form one paragraph.


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James Scott,
Dept. of Communication & Electrical Eng. RMIT

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