In Worpro 97 I imported a very long text file and saved it as an .lwp file.
The ends of each line only come to about 2/3 of the way across the page. I can go to the end of each line, hit delete, and the next line wraps back and comes up to the margins. This would take forever to go through this whole 136-page document doing that.
I expect it is the same in Word or other programs, but I can’t find any way to do this. There don’t seem to be actual “returns” at the ends of these lines, they just stop short.
Is there any way in Find and Replace, or otherwise, that I can extend all the lines to the full width of the page in one fell swoop?
In MS Word, do a series of global search and replaces.
First, change all occurrences of two consecutive paragraph breaks to something that won’t occur in the document (I use %%%). If you fill in ^p^w^p as the “find” text, it’ll get any two paragraph breaks separated only by white space.
Next, change all remaining paragraph breaks to spaces (change “^p” to " ").
Finally, change that string you started with (%%%) back to a paragraph token, and set the spacing between paragraphs to whatever you desire.
Thanks, Wombat that sounds logical, and all the paragraphs are separated by a blank line (two Returns).
However, the first suggested step of finding ^p^w^p and replacing it with %%% does not seem to work. Get a “none found,” so perhaps it differs from Word. It should not, as it seems to use the same code for characters.