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Re: Need some assistance with Word, maybe Find and Replace?
Subject:Re: Need some assistance with Word, maybe Find and Replace? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"Joyce Fetterman" <Joycef -at- gtsoftware -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:32:06 -0700
How many files do you have? A trial of the current WP can be
downloaded from the Corel website.
If it's just a few, Word's find and replace will allow you to specify
paragraph formatting as search and replace criteria. Put the
cursor in the "Find" field and click "More" to specify what format
you want to find, then move the cursor to the "Replace with" field
and specify the formatting you want it to become.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Joyce Fetterman" <Joycef -at- gtsoftware -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:16 AM
Subject: Need some assistance with Word, maybe Find and Replace?
>
> I have some OLD (1995) WordPerfect files that I need to convert to PDFs
> for archiving purposes. I haven't had WP installed in several years, so
> I was trying to open them with Word 2003.
>
> The files open just fine, except that many (most?) of the paragraphs are
> converting to a hanging indent. I don't expect anyone to ever need these
> files so I'm not going to spend time fixing the paragraphs individually
> (hundreds of pages), but if there's a quick way to get rid of the
> hanging indent, that would make me happy.
>
> I'm hoping that there's a way to use Find and Replace, but I don't know
> how. Can anyone offer suggestions?
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