I have about 500 pages of .txt documents that I want to convert to Word documents. The problem is that the lines in the .txt docs are much shorter than they would be in the final Word documents, obviously because the author has made them that way as there is an "Enter" at the end of each line. Is there any way of converting the line length to standard A4 page width? The author has also put a blank line between each paragraph so I have tried replacing "double space" with "single space" but thta didn't work. Thanks for any help anyone can give
On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:56:23 -0700 (PDT), aussie3 wrote: >I have about 500 pages of .txt documents that I want to convert to >Word documents. > >The problem is that the lines in the .txt docs are much shorter than >they would be in the final Word documents, obviously because the >author has made them that way as there is an "Enter" at the end of >each line. > >Is there any way of converting the line length to standard A4 page >width? > >The author has also put a blank line between each paragraph so I have >tried replacing "double space" with "single space" but thta didn't >work. > >Thanks for any help anyone can give See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
I think that's easy. I've done it this way: Insert all the documents. Then use Find/Replace Find the double-spacing between the paragraphs -- ^p^p highlight it find ^p replace with a space find the ^p^p that is highlighted replace with ^p Lady Dungeness Out of Danger until September ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:56:23 -0700 (PDT), aussie3 wrote: >I have about 500 pages of .txt documents that I want to convert to >Word documents. > >The problem is that the lines in the .txt docs are much shorter than >they would be in the final Word documents, obviously because the >author has made them that way as there is an "Enter" at the end of >each line. > >Is there any way of converting the line length to standard A4 page >width? > >The author has also put a blank line between each paragraph so I have >tried replacing "double space" with "single space" but thta didn't >work. > >Thanks for any help anyone can give
