Line breaking a paragraph

[trizab]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I scanned a list of B&W single sentences to PDF then exported to Word. The PDF held the list of sentences but the export to Word caused the single sentences to group in paragraphs.
I can manually line break the sentences, but was wondering if there was an automated way to do this. I thought of trying Styles but they are not familiar ground to me yet.

Thanks for any help with this.

 

[CyberTaz]

If there are no periods anywhere other than where you want the paaragraph
breaks this is relatively simple using Edit> Find & Replace.

In the Find What: box enter a period
In the Replace With: box type a period followed immediately by ^p
Click the Replace All button or use the Find button & determine in context
whether to replace each found occurrence.

If abbreviations such as "Mr." or "etc." exist in the text it becomes more
of a challenge

 

[trizab]

That worked! Thanks.

Where can I find more of these?

 

[CyberTaz]

Glad to hear it... And I might be able to better answer your question if I
had some idea what "these" you'd like to find more of

Do you mean character codes such as the ^p ? If that's what you mean, you
may have to click the little 'chiclet' button in the lower left corner of
the Find & Replace dialog to expand the window. That will expose additional
checkbox options including both a Format as well as a Special button.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[trizab]

I had no idea "wildcards" existed. Before posting this request I searched this Forum, Missing Manual Office 2008 for Mac, Word Help and Google. I used variations of the title of this post. Nothing.
I assumed this was a formatting issue. Never would have guessed Find/Replace.

Thanks so much. You've been a BIG help.

BTW, TAZ are my initials. Funny, that.