How to remove text-wrapping breaks

[Guest]

Hi,

I have a 70 page MS Word document and it has just too many of “text-wrapping
breaksâ€. I was wondering if there is a way to remove them using “Find and
Replace†rather than deleting each one of them manually as there are just too
many in this document.

Thanks,

Joe

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you sure they're text-wrapping breaks and not line breaks? If the
latter, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm. I don't
know of any way to search for text-wrapping breaks unless they are also
detected by ^l.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Joe,
If by "text wrapping breaks" you mean Manual line breaks, then do this:
Choose Edit, Replace, and click on More to get the options.
With your cursor in the Find What field, Click on the "Special" button to
drop down a list and choose "Manual Line Break".
Then place your cursor in the Replace with field and hit the space bar once.
Click replace All and see if you get the results you're looking for.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9l?=,

I have a 70 page MS Word document and it has just too many of “text-wrapping
breaksâ€. I was wondering if there is a way to remove them using “Find and
Replace†rather than deleting each one of them manually as there are just too
many in this document.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "text wrapping breaks"?

Do you mean where someone has pressed Enter? Or Shift-Enter?

If you display the non-printing characters (press the "backwards P" button in the
toolbar), what symbol do you see at these locations?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Thanks a lot. It worked. Yes "text-wrapping breaks" must be same as "Manual
Line Breaks" and are represented by ^l. On the web I came across the term
"Text-Wrapping Breaks".

Joe

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can insert a line break with Shift+Enter. To insert a text-wrapping
break, you must (AFAIK) use Insert | Break.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

If by "text wrapping breaks" you mean Manual line breaks, then do this:
Choose Edit, Replace, and click on More to get the options.
With your cursor in the Find What field, Click on the "Special" button to
drop down a list and choose "Paragraph Mark".(^p)
Then place your cursor in the Replace with field and hit the space bar once.
Click replace All and see if you get the results you're looking for.

 

[Guest]

"text wrapping breaks" you mean Manual line breaks, then do this:
Choose Edit, Replace, and click on More to get the options.
With your cursor in the Find What field, Click on the "Special" button to
drop down a list and choose "Paragraph Mark".(^p)
Then place your cursor in the Replace with field and hit the space bar once.
Click replace All and see if you get the results you're looking for.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

First, a text-wrapping break is not the same as a line break. Second, the
Find and Replace code for a manual line break is ^l, not ^p.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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