littleheaven

You're viewing this in "print layout", yes?

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Basically I'm trying take something where the line breaks are halfway across the page, and make it so the lines break where the page ends instead.

I'll keep an eye on the comments to this post, because I'd like to know how to do that, too.

However, you could use the find&replace crutch, with a little extra step.
1) Exchange all the paragraph breaks (^a^a) with a place holder, something unlikely to appear in the text, like ---***---
2) Exchange all the single carriage returns with nothin'
3) Change the placeholders back to your paragraph breaks.
Works pretty well, usually.

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Ah, no luck with the find and replace - it doesn't recognise the carriage return as a character, and therefore the "replace" button stays greyed out so I can't click on it.

I need something real quick and easy, as I'm having to do this for literally hundreds of docs. I'm retrieving ALL the postings from a Yahoo group to resurrect a defunct website and I want to be able to copy stuff into Frontpage without having to futz over the formatting of every story :o)

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What program do you use? I just tried it in Word; Word recognizes ^a as carriage return.

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Hmmm, yes, I'm using Word - but it didn't work :o( I put in ^a and it came up with nothing found. I think that's because the document was not created in Word so they're not real carriage returns. I've copied and pasted stuff from an HTML page into the Word doc, and wherever the lines ended on the web page, that's where they end on the Word doc, regardless of where the doc margin actually is. Is there any way to get them to paste into word without doing that?

Thank you for trying to help me!

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No problem. I must've formatted about 350 stories for our archive by now, so I feel your pain. *grins*
If you like, mail me a copy of the file... maybe I can get it to work on my computer, or figure out why the f&r trick doesn't work.

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(email's vohwink (at) muenster dot de, btw)

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Coming through!

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Meh, that was supposed to go at the bottom of the comments. Such a rookie mistake. ;)

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Yes, I am now :o)

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Yeah, it helps. I can't remember the last time I typed anything in "normal" view.

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I've even got all the little paragraph and carriage return symbols showing :o)

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So do you have it, or do you still need help?

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Still stuck, I'm afraid. I think I might be asking the impossible *g* I'm trying to cut & paste from a web page into a Word doc and not take the line formatting with me. See my explanation to Astrid above.

Thanks for trying to help, I appreciate it!

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Hmmm....I know sometimes if you put it in a .PDF, then convert it into word, it'll shift. Could try putting it into a text editor first.

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Okay, I'll try that, thanks! I'll let you know if it works.

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crazymadjo.livejournal.com

If I'm understanding correctly what you want: Format/Columns. Select "Two".

That's it! :-)

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Er, not exactly... more the opposite. I'm trying to get something to go right across the page without having to remove the carriage returns on each line, which are currently at about the 2/3 mark. It's very perplexing.

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foufymaus.livejournal.com

I would like to take a crack at this. I work in an office and with WORD documents all day. So if you could, can you send me a sample *grin* my email address is foufymaus [at] gmail dot com.

thanks
mausie

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damnskippytoo.livejournal.com

The code for a manual line break (carriage return) is ^l and a paragraph is ^p. At least that's what works in my Word documents. A page break is ^m or ^% (for a section break). It could be ^m or ^% since it's a definite break and not page setup. Or have you checked page setup? Maybe when you bring it into Word it reads the break as a margin setting.

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