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Re: How to convert text (was Re: Improv

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From: gillies
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 17:38
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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!!  ...Microsoft, how about adding
>this as a feature....

Big deal.  Use find/replace and macromaker or the supplied automac to
add the feature yourself.  The tools are within your grasp, if you'd
just reach for them...

I want MS-Word to incorporate things that are currently impossible,
not oodles of shortcuts for the couch potato.
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