Help with word wrap. I need help formatting a document

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Hello: I'm currently working on a document that will be of considerable
length: probably around 1000-2000 pages. Esentially I'm copying and
pasting text from one source, and then using another program to display
it.

With google groups, when you post a message the message is
automatically formatted to a certain width, so when you paste it in a
program like Notepad, the length does not exceed the width of one page.
In notebook you can specify no "wrap" so you can tell where the line
breaks are. You can't tell where the page breaks are on Word. I
hope to be able to format about a thousand word pages quickly without
using google groups.

So far, I've been cutting and pasting the text over to google groups,
then cutting it and pasting it back into Notepad. Google groups did
the formatting for me. Unfortunately, I can only do this with a
certain number of lines, and it takes quite a bit of time to do this
for so many pages.

Question : Is there a way to format a page as outlined above using
Word?

regards,
dave
 
So, let me get this straight - you're trying to create a Word document with
line breaks (new paragraphs) at the end of every line ?? Why ?? When you
add some text to the middle of your document, the text won't wrap correctly,
and you'll wind up re-doing all the line breaks.

MD
 
Hello: I'm currently working on a document that will be of considerable
length: probably around 1000-2000 pages. Esentially I'm copying and
pasting text from one source, and then using another program to display
it.

With google groups, when you post a message the message is
automatically formatted to a certain width, so when you paste it in a
program like Notepad, the length does not exceed the width of one page.
In notebook you can specify no "wrap" so you can tell where the line
breaks are. You can't tell where the page breaks are on Word. I
hope to be able to format about a thousand word pages quickly without
using google groups.

So far, I've been cutting and pasting the text over to google groups,
then cutting it and pasting it back into Notepad. Google groups did
the formatting for me. Unfortunately, I can only do this with a
certain number of lines, and it takes quite a bit of time to do this
for so many pages.

Question : Is there a way to format a page as outlined above using
Word?

regards,
dave
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Do yourself 2 big favors:

1. Buy a basic Word book (e.g., Word for Dummies). As a former
WordPerfect user, I see Word as completely counter-intuitive when it
comes to formatting. Word uses "styles" and although you "can" format
individual words or sentences, this eventually leads to corrupted
documents -- especially with something as large as you propose.

2. Rather than build one huge document, seriously consider breaking it
up into "chapters" or sections as you create. Save each section often,
including making periodic backup copies. Once you have completed
everything, you can combine the sections -- if you really need to.
Check out "master document" in Word help or in the book you buy.
Working on a single giant Word document is just asking for disaster to
strike. If a single chapter/section gets corrupted -- and you don't
have a recent backup -- worst case, you have lost that section. If
you're on page 995 of a single document and somehow screw things up, you
will be seriously hurting.

BTW, Notepad is limited in the size of files it can handle. I don't
know what the limit is, but I doubt it will handle a 1000-2000 page
document.

In addition to the above, post future Word-related questions in one of
the Word newsgroups:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.newusers
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.numbering
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.printingfonts
etc., etc.
 
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