Removing Paragraph Marks

[Guest]

I have documents were I want to remove paragraph marks. Some will remove just
fine but others will not; whether I use the backspace key or highlight and
then press delete. Any help would be greatful.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

An empty paragraph is required after a table at the end of a document. Could
this be part of the problem?

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

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[Guest]

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately this is not the case. The paragraph
mark occurs after a finished paragraph but before a table. I have
successfully removed other paragraph marks before tables, but there are some
that are just stubborn and won't delete. Frustrating. Any additional help is
appreciated.
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Thanks,
Tony

An empty paragraph is required after a table at the end of a document. Could
this be part of the problem?

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

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all may benefit.

 

[Guest]

I've had a similar problem. No idea what caused it. Try this:

1. Hit enter at the end of the paragraph before the trouble spot so you've
got another empty paragraph.
2. Insert a row at the top of your table and then convert it to text. This
will give you well-behaved paragraphs around the bad one.
3. Select from the paragraph above the bad one to the last paragraph of the
converted table row and then try to delete.

That usually works for me. Every time I've gotten a paragraph that I
couldn't delete, I could, for some reason, click to the right of the
paragraph even though there's nothing after it - no break or anything. From
the little bit of research I've done, it appears to be an issue with opening
and editing documents across different versions of Word, but I've yet to find
a satisfactory answer.

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately this is not the case. The paragraph
mark occurs after a finished paragraph but before a table. I have
successfully removed other paragraph marks before tables, but there are some
that are just stubborn and won't delete. Frustrating. Any additional help is
appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In addition to what Kat has said, sometimes selecting a paragraph mark and
pressing Delete doesn't work, but placing the insertion point before the
paragraph mark and pressing Backspace, or placing the insertion point at the
end of the previous paragraph and pressing Delete, will work.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately this is not the case. The paragraph
mark occurs after a finished paragraph but before a table. I have
successfully removed other paragraph marks before tables, but there are some
that are just stubborn and won't delete. Frustrating. Any additional help is
appreciated.

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problem, and Kat's suggestions aren't helping. I've tried
delete/backspace in every combination I can think of. Any more suggestions?

(I'm also having this problem with a different document, and in that case
the paragraph marker isn't above a table, it's just in the middle of some
text. Can't get rid of that one either.)

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

When you say the paragraph marker is in the middle of text, do you mean that
it's separating different paragraphs, or do you mean that it occurs within a
paragraph, such that the marker has text to the left and right of it in the
same horizontal line of text?

What version of Word is this?

If you can send me a file in which this occurs, I'd be happy to take a look
to see what's going on. You can send to para-problem[at]herbtyson.com,
replacing [at] with the proper character.

 

[Stefan Blom]

If the table is wrapped, you wouldn't be able to delete the paragraph
mark to which the table is anchored (and that paragraph mark could be
above the table).

To turn off text wrapping for the table: Place the insertion point
inside it. On the Table menu, click Table Properties. Click the Table
tab. Set "Text wrapping" to "None." Click OK.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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