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Subject:Re: Eliminating .txt file hard returns From:Katav <katav -at- YAHOO -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:34:54 -0700
All the advice re Word REPLACE ^p^p with ^p is fine
except that (typically) the text file looks like
this (^p = line feed)
This is the start of paragraph ^p
and this is a line of test ^p
and this is a line of test ^p
and this is a line of test ^p
(blank line )^p
This is the start of paragraph ^p
etc. for n lines of text.
Replacing ^p^p with ^p only closes up the extra space; in order to
edit the file to "flow" as a normal (word processor) file, the line
breaks (^p) need to be eliminated.
The procedure, as I use it, is
1. REPLACE ^p^p with $$ (any character string not
found in the document)
2. REPLACE ^p with [space] (press [spacebar])
3. REPLACE $$ with ^p (optionally followed by ^t
for a tab indent; each ^t=1 tab stop)
I do it all the time when I save the excellent & relevant posts on
techwr-l.
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