Preserving MSDOS text

[Guest]

Hi hope someone can help.

I have a dos text file if i print using dos print command prints out fine.
However i need to call the file into Word2000 to add a header to the top of
the document, this is where the problem arises. When i call the file into
word it is reformatted and has extra blank lines (return characters) i can
clear them by doing find/replace but i will eventually have severall hundred
pages in this dos text file and i don't want to tie word up doing the
find/replace each time. Is there a way that i can bring the file into word so
it is not reformatted in any way, alternatively is there a way to merge my
document with the header with my dos text file again without any reformatting
done to the dos text file

Many thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

Hello-

The issues you mention define the fundamental difference between Text
Editors and Word Processors. For your requirements, you may be better off to
use a good Text Editor rather than Word. Windows supplies you with NotePad,
but there are any number of more sophisticated programs (such as BBEdit,
Texturizer, EmEditor Pro, etc.) which vary in price from *free* on up.
Whether any of them provide true Header/Footer capabilities I do not know. I
have never worked with one that does, but the newer, fuller featured versions
may since they support HTML/XML.

You might take a look at Versiontracker.com for some suggestions.

Regards |:>)

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?c3NtdXJmeQ==?=,

Word certainly won't add any blank lines to the text file. If you're seeing
them, they're already there. Do you perhaps have style settings that are pushing
the paragraphs or lines furhter apart, so that it appears there are additional
blank lines? Or is the text file set up so that there's a carriage return at the
end of each line, and it's breaking differently when inserted into a Word
document?

I have a dos text file if i print using dos print command prints out fine.
However i need to call the file into Word2000 to add a header to the top of
the document, this is where the problem arises. When i call the file into
word it is reformatted and has extra blank lines (return characters) i can
clear them by doing find/replace but i will eventually have severall hundred
pages in this dos text file and i don't want to tie word up doing the
find/replace each time. Is there a way that i can bring the file into word so
it is not reformatted in any way, alternatively is there a way to merge my
document with the header with my dos text file again without any reformatting
done to the dos text file

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply
in the newsgroup and not by e-mail

 

[Andy]

I have a dos text file if i print using dos print command prints out fine.

However i need to call the file into Word2000 to add a header to the top of
the document, this is where the problem arises. When i call the file into
word it is reformatted and has extra blank lines (return characters)

The text editor I use, Boxer, has a formatting option that removes the
hard returns at the end of each line, effectively making each
paragraph one long line. When you paste that into Word, it formats as
expected.

Boxer also will print one-line headers and footers.

www.boxersoftware.com/