I have Word 2002. Some years ago on a much older version of Word I used a macro that would reformat text in paragraphs by removing the linefeeds. That is, if I had text that had been written 30 characters to the line and wanted to remove the linefeed at the 30 character end of the line point, this macro would do so. It even recognized paragraphs and didn't touch them. The only remaining linefeed was therefore at the end of each paragraph. Is there something like this available today? I copy a lot of newsgroup messages and they have lots of line feeds in them I'd like to remove quickly. Thanks!!!
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 09:30:33 -0400, "mrfss" wrote: >I have Word 2002. Some years ago on a much older version of Word I used a >macro that would reformat text in paragraphs by removing the linefeeds. That >is, if I had text that had been written 30 characters to the line and wanted >to remove the linefeed at the 30 character end of the line point, this macro >would do so. It even recognized paragraphs and didn't touch them. The only >remaining linefeed was therefore at the end of each paragraph. > >Is there something like this available today? > >I copy a lot of newsgroup messages and they have lots of line feeds in them >I'd like to remove quickly. > >Thanks!!! > See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Thanks!!! > > See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm. > > -- > Regards, > Jay Freedman > Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
"mrfss" wrote in message news:Z9ydnbGyHuhlVNreRVn-hQ@adelphia.com... >I have Word 2002. Some years ago on a much older version of Word I used a >macro that would reformat text in paragraphs by removing the linefeeds. >That is, if I had text that had been written 30 characters to the line and >wanted to remove the linefeed at the 30 character end of the line point, >this macro would do so. It even recognized paragraphs and didn't touch >them. The only remaining linefeed was therefore at the end of each >paragraph. > > Is there something like this available today? > > I copy a lot of newsgroup messages and they have lots of line feeds in > them I'd like to remove quickly. Have you looked at a prog called 'emailstripper' ? It's a free download from a fim called PaperCut. It does it all for you. And it's good! Dave
The easiest way to do it in MSW is to use search and replace. Search for ^n, which is the new line character, or soft return character, and replace it with a space character. Click replace all, and you're done. -- Phantom Researcher "David Pearsall" wrote: > > "mrfss" wrote in message > news:Z9ydnbGyHuhlVNreRVn-hQ@adelphia.com... > >I have Word 2002. Some years ago on a much older version of Word I used a > >macro that would reformat text in paragraphs by removing the linefeeds. > >That is, if I had text that had been written 30 characters to the line and > >wanted to remove the linefeed at the 30 character end of the line point, > >this macro would do so. It even recognized paragraphs and didn't touch > >them. The only remaining linefeed was therefore at the end of each > >paragraph. > > > > Is there something like this available today? > > > > I copy a lot of newsgroup messages and they have lots of line feeds in > > them I'd like to remove quickly. > > > Have you looked at a prog called 'emailstripper' ? > It's a free download from a fim called PaperCut. > > It does it all for you. > And it's good! > > Dave > > >
