Uploading Word 2007 documents to Google Documents

[John Goche]

Hello,

I have a Microsoft Word 2007 document where paragraphs
have been separated by one blank lines. These are proper
Microsoft Word paragraphs as can be seen by the
"backwards P" characters that separate them when
I click on the Show/Hide button under the Home tab
in Word 2007.

Now when I upload the Word document to Google Documents
(the service can be found at http://docs.google.com) then the
paragraph structure is preserved, but, alas, the blank lines
shown in Word separating them disappear.

Is there any known way of preventing this from happening.

Thanks,

John Goche

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If the blank lines are actually empty paragraphs, they should be deleted
from the document (Edit Replace ^p^p with ^p) and the paragraphs should be
formatted with space after them to obtain the space between the paragraphs.
Using empty paragraphs as a way of providing space between text is a
carryover from the days of the typewriter.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[John Goche]

Are you saying that I should manually insert a paragraph consisting of
a single space
to achieve blank lines between paragraphs?

Interestingly if I insert an extra blank paragraph in Word 2007 so
that there are actually
three paragraph markers between paragraphs rather than two then when I
upload to
google documents I get a single blank line between the paragraphs, but
I still don't
think I'm doing it right because I would really like the word
documents to match the
one blank line between paragraphs, not two blank lines between
paragraphs which
is what it looks like now. Thanks for your help.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

No! That is not what I am saying. You should delete the empty paragraph
that you have there already and IF you want a space between each paragraph,
you should format the paragraphs so that they have the desired space after
them by using the Format Paragraph dialog.



--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

Are you saying that I should manually insert a paragraph consisting of
a single space
to achieve blank lines between paragraphs?

Interestingly if I insert an extra blank paragraph in Word 2007 so
that there are actually
three paragraph markers between paragraphs rather than two then when I
upload to
google documents I get a single blank line between the paragraphs, but
I still don't
think I'm doing it right because I would really like the word
documents to match the
one blank line between paragraphs, not two blank lines between
paragraphs which
is what it looks like now. Thanks for your help.