line lengths

[Daveinolywa]

I have run into a problem where I have cut and paste text
from an e-mail document to Word. The problem is that the
line length is shorter than the line length in Word
resulting in smaller body.

Other than deleting the line breaks, how could I re format
the document to align with the margins in Word?

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[Graham Mayor]

This is a user forum, not a help desk. You must come here for your replies.
The 'problem' here is that e-mail documents are plain text with hard
returns, thus every line is a paragraph. You could use the replace function
easily enough, or you could download the simple stripmail tool from the
doenloads page of my web site, which handles the formatting for you. Copy
the text to the clipboard. Paste into strip mail, format, then paste into
Word.

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[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
This is a user forum, not a help desk. You must come here for your replies.
The 'problem' here is that e-mail documents are plain text with hard
returns, thus every line is a paragraph. You could use the replace function
easily enough, or you could download the simple stripmail tool from the
doenloads page of my web site, which handles the formatting for you. Copy
the text to the clipboard. Paste into strip mail, format, then paste into
Word.

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exactly how would i use the replace function??

i tried it several different ways and never got any
satifactory results.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

 

[Graham Mayor]

Messages are formatted with hard returns or line feeds so first thing is to
determine which by displaying them (CTRL+*)

For paragraph marks
Use a wildcard search for
^13([!^13])
replace with
\1

There's a space at the beginning of the replace line.

For line feeds replace (not wildcard)
^13
to
^l
(that's lower case L)

Better still replace ^l with ^p first. and search the first suggested
pattern.


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