Expand Out Lines in Word Document

[danny2000]

Hi

Would anyone know how to expand out lines in a Word document. For example.

I copied some text from a pdf file. When I paste it into the word doc it comes out as below.

Line1 - 'This is the first line'
Line2 - 'Second line'


Line3 - 'This is the third line'

etc etc.

The Problem is that I want to past it in so it uses the full width of the page as the pdf document page format is narrower than the word doc. I want it to look like this. Is there a function in Microsoft word which will allow me to do this? Thanks.

Line1 - 'This is the first line Second Line This is the third line'

[eNGiNe]

Yup, copy/paste from .pdf brings in each display line as a text line; that's the way it is. Still, once you've pasted the block of lines into Word you can select it (apart from the paragraph mark at the end of the last line) and use Find and Replace to replace the paragraph marks with spaces. I don't know exactly where you'll find this in Word XP: in 2010 there's a More option in the Find and Replace dialog and a Special pull-down for characters such as paragraph mark.
Hope this points you in the right direction.

[danny2000]

Thanks for coming back. I can find and replace in Word XP but not sure how to find a paragraph marker. I can bring it up using View>>Paragraph Markers but not sure how to search on them.

Any clues? Am thinking it can be identified by the find function using another form.

Thanks

[danny2000]

Found a solution.

The paragraph mark is ^p . Thats it.

Here's a good YouTube clip which explains this. It's for a higher version of Office but you can use the symbol above to do the job.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlZx34j0_9c

[OTPM]

Just for information:
^p = hard carriage return
^l = soft carriage return

Hope this helps.

Good luck.
Tony