Issue when pasting/opening a text file in Word....

[Valentin]

Ok, honestly, I don't even know how to describe the problem in a short
sentence(otherwise you would have seen that sentence as the subject
and I would also have been able to make a search on the Web).
Here is what happens:
I have a text file and I want to import it into Word to make the text
look nicer. Of course, I can do this without a problem, what bothers
me to the extreme is that, most of the time, each line from the text
file would fill just a half of a line in Word.
I will give an example from the file that I am trying to "fix".
This is how the text imported in Word looks like:
"You'll find the terminology "eschew obfuscation"[END_OF_LINE]
listed near the end of part one of this manual, to[END_OF_LINE]
help make things more understandable, and lots[END_OF_LINE]
of other tips and examples[END_OF_LINE]"

This is how the text looks like, after is has been "manually
repaired/compressed":
"You'll find the terminology "eschew obfuscation" listed near the end
of part one[END_OF_LINE] of this manual, to help make things more
understandable, and lots of other tips[END_OF_LINE] and examples."
(sorry, the width of the window doesn't allow me to present the
"corrected" text "as is", but I hope you get the idea).

What I am trying to say is that one line from the text file takes only
half of a line(roughly) in Word, and that, by deleting the surplus
[END_OF_LINE]s, you can make you text fill out the Word page in a more
efficient way.

Now, so far, whenever I have been presented with this situation, I was
lucky that the text file was small and it didn't take me a lot of time
to manually fix it. But now I have a text file that takes 92 pages in
Word and I would like to know if there is a way of applying this
process by using commands from the menus.

I hope I have been able to present the problem in a clear way and I'll
do my best to answer requests for more details about it.

Thank you!

 

[Anne Troy]

Instead of inserting it, try opening the text file, ctrl+A, copy, then paste
into Word by Edit-Paste special as *unformatted text*.

Alternatively, use Find/Replace to clean up the end of line breaks (go to
Tools-Options, View tab and choose ALL under non-printing characters so you
can see the funky little down/left pointing arrows that depict line breaks
or the backwards Ps that depict paragraph returns). If line breaks, FIND ^l
(that's an L), if paragraph returns, FIND ^p. Either way, you'll likely want
to replace with a space.

To be careful not to replace *real* paragraph breaks, you might want to find
multiple line breaks or multiple paragraph returns (i.e., ^p^p) and replace
with XXXXX or some unique string like that, then do your individual
replacements, then find XXXXX and replace with ^p.

Let me know if I haven't explained well enough!
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Hope this helps!
Anne Troy (better known as Dreamboat)
Author: Dreamboat on Word
Email: Dreamboat*at*Piersontech.com
Web: www.TheOfficeExperts.com
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Ok, honestly, I don't even know how to describe the problem in a short
sentence(otherwise you would have seen that sentence as the subject
and I would also have been able to make a search on the Web).
Here is what happens:
I have a text file and I want to import it into Word to make the text
look nicer. Of course, I can do this without a problem, what bothers
me to the extreme is that, most of the time, each line from the text
file would fill just a half of a line in Word.
I will give an example from the file that I am trying to "fix".
This is how the text imported in Word looks like:
"You'll find the terminology "eschew obfuscation"[END_OF_LINE]
listed near the end of part one of this manual, to[END_OF_LINE]
help make things more understandable, and lots[END_OF_LINE]
of other tips and examples[END_OF_LINE]"

This is how the text looks like, after is has been "manually
repaired/compressed":
"You'll find the terminology "eschew obfuscation" listed near the end
of part one[END_OF_LINE] of this manual, to help make things more
understandable, and lots of other tips[END_OF_LINE] and examples."
(sorry, the width of the window doesn't allow me to present the
"corrected" text "as is", but I hope you get the idea).

What I am trying to say is that one line from the text file takes only
half of a line(roughly) in Word, and that, by deleting the surplus
[END_OF_LINE]s, you can make you text fill out the Word page in a more
efficient way.

Now, so far, whenever I have been presented with this situation, I was
lucky that the text file was small and it didn't take me a lot of time
to manually fix it. But now I have a text file that takes 92 pages in
Word and I would like to know if there is a way of applying this
process by using commands from the menus.

I hope I have been able to present the problem in a clear way and I'll
do my best to answer requests for more details about it.

Thank you!