Soft Carrage Returns?

[Jerry]

Emails use a soft carrage return at the end of each line. After copy and
pasting the text into a word doc I want to do "find replace" to remove
them. What character do I use in the "Find" box?

I have tried to copy and paste them but that does not work and I have gone
through Help and found nothing.

Thank you,
Jerry Kinder

 

[James Silverton]

Emails use a soft carrage return at the end of each line. After copy and
pasting the text into a word doc I want to do "find replace" to remove
them. What character do I use in the "Find" box?

I have tried to copy and paste them but that does not work and I have gone
through Help and found nothing.

I suspect that what you are referring to is what Word calls a "manual line
break" and which has the digraph : ^|. It is the character that "Display
Punctuation" shows as what I can best describe as an arrow with a right
angle bend in its shaft!

 

[Jerry]

Hi,

I tried it but Word says ^| is not a valid special character for the Find
What box.

Thanks,
JK

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jerry,

In the Edit=->Replace box click on [More] then
on [Special] and select the 'Manual Line break'
choice. You may also want to try the approach here.
http://mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm
if using Format=>Autoformat doesn't achieve the
cleanup you need.

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Hi,

I tried it but Word says ^| is not a valid special character for the Find
What box.

Thanks,
JK >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Jerry]

Hi,

Thanks that worked perfectly.

JK

 

[James Silverton]

Hi,

I tried it but Word says ^| is not a valid special character for the Find
What box.

Thanks,
JK

Jerry!

You are certainly correct! It's really quite a mystery since the help
function clearly says to "Type ^|" for a manual line break and that's what
seems to appear in the "Find" box when the "special character": "manual line
break" is used. Perhaps, someone can tell me what's going on even if it is
only that the writers of the help sections don't talk to their colleagues at
Microsoft! I must admit that I have not spent the time to test all the
digraphs in the Help listing but all I have tried previously seem to work.

 

[James Silverton]

Jerry!

You are certainly correct! It's really quite a mystery since the help
function clearly says to "Type ^|" for a manual line break and that's what
seems to appear in the "Find" box when the "special character": "manual line
break" is used. Perhaps, someone can tell me what's going on even if it is
only that the writers of the help sections don't talk to their colleagues at
Microsoft! I must admit that I have not spent the time to test all the
digraphs in the Help listing but all I have tried previously seem to work.

Here I go again, replying to my own questions! I have, admittedly
accidentally, solved the problem of the manual line break. I happened to be
thinking about the puzzle while revising a document using the Times New
Roman font. The confusion arises because I habitually use non-serif fonts as
does the Help section in MS Word. The control code for "manual line break"
is not ^| but ^l.

The difference is very hard to see unless you are looking hard but the bar
in the second case is actually a lower case "L". To summarize, you can
search for manual line breaks by using the "special" menu or entering ^l
(again, a lower case L). If, for some inexplicable reason you want have the
symbol in your document, it is inserted by using CNTL+ENTER.

 

[Guest]

Isn't it ^L -- only lower case?

 

[Jerry]

Hi,
Yes it is a lower case L - ^l . Thanks for all your help.

JK

Isn't it ^L -- only lower case?

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Jerry!

You are certainly correct! It's really quite a mystery since the help
function clearly says to "Type ^|" for a manual line break and that's what
seems to appear in the "Find" box when the "special character": "manual line
break" is used. Perhaps, someone can tell me what's going on even if it is
only that the writers of the help sections don't talk to their

colleagues