Frankjake
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I have a list of severl hundreds of itmes listed (several pages). Whoever created this list, double spaced each item by hitting the return key twice, not by using the paragraph format. I want to remove the "return" in between each item, so it will be single spaced.
I know I can just go throught the put the curson at the blank line and hit delete, then arrow down and hit delete again... and continue. But is there a way to removed these extra spaces/returns?
Example:
Item one
Item two
Item three
Above is how is is now, by hitting return twice after each line is typed. (not by using format paragraph)
But I want it to look like this:
Item one
Item two
Item three
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abskws
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I think that you can highlight the entire document then right click and click on paragraph. On Spacing make it 0 point on before and auto on after (you'll see at the bottom. Make the line spacing single and check the box that says don't add space between paragraphs of the same style. Hope it works!
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Burp
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I think you can fix this with Replace. In the from field put "^p^p" and the to would be "^p" (without the quotes). The do a replace all. See if that works.
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pulsar
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Here is how I do it, using Word 2000.
Select Replace form the Edit menu.
Click on the More button.
Click in the Find what: field.
Click on the Special button and select Paragraph Mark.
Click on the Special button and select Paragraph Mark a second time.
Click in the Replace with: field.
Click on the Special button and select Paragraph Mark.
Click on the Replace all button - not visible in this picture, it is behind the Special pop-up menu.
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Burp
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pulsar, that is a better explanation. I was too lazy to do the 8X10 glossy.
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pulsar
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Burp wrote:pulsar, that is a better explanation. I was too lazy to do the 8X10 glossy.
But you beat me by two minutes. Takes time to develop pictures.
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Frankjake
Can't you just highlight the text, go to line spacing in the formatting tool bar and set it there?
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Frankjake
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absksw, I couldn't get that to work, but I have Word 2000 and I couldn't see that last box to check.
Pulsar and Burp, both your ideas were basically the same, just going about it a little differently. It worked!
Thank you very much to all of you for your help.
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wittmeba
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I would cut and paste into Notepad. Remove all line feeds/returns and turn off word wrap.
Then cut and paste back in to word.
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pulsar
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wittmeba wrote:I would cut and paste into Notepad. Remove all line feeds/returns and turn off word wrap.
Then cut and paste back in to word.
How is this more effiecient than using Word's Replace function as described earlier in the thread?
Tom
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