Deleting Hard Returns in a Word Document

[Jeff Rosiek]

I copied in some text from a pdf file and pasted it into Word. I have
Windows XP with Word 2003. When I pasted the text, it puts hard returns at
the end of each line. Is there a simple way I can replace these returns with
a space and no return so that the text flows as it should? Thanks for your
help.

 

[3c273]

Fina and replace "^p" without the quotes.
Louis

 

[Richard in AZ]

|I copied in some text from a pdf file and pasted it into Word. I have
| Windows XP with Word 2003. When I pasted the text, it puts hard returns at
| the end of each line. Is there a simple way I can replace these returns with
| a space and no return so that the text flows as it should? Thanks for your
| help.
| --
| Jeff A. Rosiek

This would be best answered in a Office newsgroup.
But Yes and No depending on your definition of "simple".
In Word you can use the "find and replace" feature to replace the hard return (paragraph) input with
a "space".
You can do this globally and it will remove ALL of the hard returns, including the ones you want to
keep.
But if you first highlight the one paragraph at a time and invoke the replacement, it will keep the
ending paragraph mark.
But now you have to do this one paragraph at a time.
If you are real lucky your document will have two hard returns at the end of a true paragraph.
Then you set the find and replace feature to replace a pair of returns with another character. Then
globally replace all the hard returns and then go back and replace the substitute character with a
hard return.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I copied in some text from a pdf file and pasted it into Word. I have
Windows XP with Word 2003. When I pasted the text, it puts hard returns at
the end of each line. Is there a simple way I can replace these returns with
a space and no return so that the text flows as it should? Thanks for your
help.

The fact that you are using Windows XP is irrelevant. This is a
question about Word, and you would be most likely to get the help you
need if you would ask in a Word newsgroup, not here in a Windows XP
one.