replace auto line breaks with manual line breaks

[DavidH]

Greetings group
I desire to do a search and replace on a word document where by the
soft line breaks inserted automaticaly by WORD are replaced with hard (
or manual ) linebreaks.
Many thanks for assistance
DavidH

 

[Michael Kintner]

Goto to the Replace in the Edit Menu

Edit > Replace

At the bottom of the Find and Replace click the MORE options

Then click the Special Button and there you will find your hard returns.

Good Luck,
Mike

 

[DavidH]

Thanks Mike,
It is not the hard returns that I want to find.
I want to find the soft returns that Word inserts as it wraps a line.
Then i want to replace them with hard returns.
many thanks DavidH

 

[Stefan Blom]

Have you tried using File>Save As, and choosing the "Text only with
line breaks" file type?

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[DavidH]

Thanks Stefan
for the adivce.
The underlying problem that I have is that I am merging to e-mail and
in the process creating 40-100 individual e-mails.
Formating as received in the recipients mailbox tends to get rather
messed up.
If I could insert hard carriage returns before the merge then that
problem would be solved.
I used Eudora for my mail.
best wishes
and thanks for the contact
DavidH