Mac Forum / Applications / Word / November 2005

Hi,
if you turn on the invisible characters (by clicking the inverted P "¶" on
the toolbar or by hitting Cmd+8), is there actually a paragraph mark (again,
an inverted P "¶") at the end of each line, i.e. before the additional space
in the next line? If so, in the Find and Replace, tell Word to find
"^p[Space]" (no quotation marks, and an actual space instead of [Space]),
and to replace it with "^p" (again, no quotation marks). "^p" tells Word to
look for paragraph marks, so it will look for paragraph marks followed by a
space and replace it with a simple paragraph mark.

If that doesn't help, post back and give more details about the structure of
your document.

On 12.11.05 6:23, in article
1131776592.150281.210160@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,

Check in the Word Help under " Advanced search methods" for "Wildcard
Characters".

That's what you want to use.

Before we begin, note that Word documents have lines and paragraphs.  You
can find the beginning of a paragraph, and you can find the beginning of a
manual line break.

You can't find the beginning of the soft line breaks inserted by
autowrapping (because they are not characters, there's nothing in the
document to search for!).  This is not usually a problem :-)

If by "line" you meant "Paragraph", search for '^p '    and replace with
{nothing}.  That search is three characters: a caret, the lower-case letter
p, and a space.  No quotes.  You replace that with "nothing" (not a
"space").

If by "line" you meant "manually-created or hard line-breaks", then you
search for "^l " instead.  That's caret, lower-case l, space.  The caret
character stands for "control" or "escape" and tells Word that the next
character is a control character and not something you want to find.

Cheers

On 12/11/05 5:23 PM, in article
1131776592.150281.210160@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,

A quick method if all your text is left-aligned (or justified):

Select all (Ctrl+A), then click the "Center" button (or Ctrl+E).
That'll strip all whitespace from the beginning and end of paragraphs.
Then reapply the proper justification.

Regards,
Klaus