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Article #44340Re: Improve MSWORD: Lines to Paragraph (Was: Re: Word - How do I reformat lines into a single paragraph?
From: barry
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 01:59
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 01:59
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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 barry@playfair.stanford.edu -ARPA ...!decwrl!shasta!playfair!barry -USENET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!decwrl!shelby!barry@playfair 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? Message-ID: <51@playfair.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 22 Dec 89 01:59:05 GMT References: <1989Dec10.025722.424@smsc.sony.com> <436@gecko.co.rmit.oz> <361@hgwells.GTE.COM> Sender: Barrett P. Eynon <barry@playfair.stanford.edu> Reply-To: barry@playfair.UUCP (Barrett P. Eynon) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 17