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From: barry@playfair.STANFORD.EDU (barry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Improve MSWORD: Lines to Paragraph (Was: Re: Word - How do I reformat lines into a single paragraph?
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Date: 22 Dec 89 01:59:05 GMT
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Sender: Barrett P. Eynon <barry@playfair.stanford.edu>
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In article <361@hgwells.GTE.COM> dgp0@bunny.gte.com (Dennis Pratt) writes:
>Mr. James Scott writes that the solution of removing paragraph marks at 
>the end of a line is to to use the "change" command to replace ^p 
>(paragraph mark) with a space.
>
>That's how I do it, but what a PAIN!!  It takes me hours to convert a 
>document taken off a line oriented system to a WORD document.  I want 
>headings to be marked as headings.  I want indents to be marked as tabs, 
>not spaces.  I want paragraph breaks at paragraphs, not at line breaks.  I 
>want extraneous spaces removed.
>
The shareware program Add/Strip (available on sumex and elsewhere) does 
a very good and flexible job of preparing text files for input to word
processors or other Mac programs. You might want to give it a try.
Barry Eynon
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