wordpad question

[RB]

I've run into a Wordpad situation several times that I need to know how to
manage or work around.

What happens is that when I paste a scanned in text document into a Wordpad
window, and start my editing, I find inconsistent line spacing.

In some places, I am allowed to single space. In other spots, I can only
double space or more.

Seems there's an embedded line space that I can't overide where I'm trying
to be in single space mode but it won't let me.

What causes that, and what can I do to get single spacing when I run into
the situation?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

I've run into a Wordpad situation several times that I need to know how to
manage or work around.

What happens is that when I paste a scanned in text document into a
Wordpad
window, and start my editing, I find inconsistent line spacing.

In some places, I am allowed to single space. In other spots, I can only
double space or more.

Seems there's an embedded line space that I can't overide where I'm trying
to be in single space mode but it won't let me.

What causes that, and what can I do to get single spacing when I run into
the situation?

When this happens to me I save the document and close WordPad. Then I
reopen the document.

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[Sharon F]

I've run into a Wordpad situation several times that I need to know how to
manage or work around.

What happens is that when I paste a scanned in text document into a Wordpad
window, and start my editing, I find inconsistent line spacing.

In some places, I am allowed to single space. In other spots, I can only
double space or more.

Seems there's an embedded line space that I can't overide where I'm trying
to be in single space mode but it won't let me.

What causes that, and what can I do to get single spacing when I run into
the situation?

I agree with Frank but an additional thing you might try is ..
After copying the text, save the file. Then save a copy. Work with the copy
file, so that you have a preserved copy of the original scan. Open the
copied file. Select the entire contents (Edit> Select All) and apply a
single font to the entire document. That will get rid of some of the
editing troubles - at least those that are caused by the font selections in
the OCR output.

NOTE: Once the document is edited to your liking, consider deleting the
original scanned document file.

 

[RB]

Thanks for those suggestions. I'll try 'em tonite.

 

[max]

I'd try pasting the "text" into notepad 1st, then copying that and
paste that into the Wordpad. The past to notepad will get rid of lots
of extra non-text stuff.

--max