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Old 11-20-2013, 09:45 AM
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Hello,



I would like to know how can I turn the text from this image:
http://postimg.org/image/4e4rvqjsn/



to become like the one here:
http://postimg.org/image/5rwer1j1z/


I mean to fill each row as much as possible with text. This happened because the text was pasted from notepad.

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Last edited by goguvarra; 11-20-2013 at 01:58 PM. Reason: I posted the link in the wrong order. Also corrected my post below.
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Old 11-20-2013, 01:20 PM
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It is difficult to understand what you are actually asking for. The text content is so different. At face value, just put paragraph marks (Enter key) between the chunks. Done.

That is probably not what you are REALLY want, but since you do not actually really ask...
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Old 11-20-2013, 01:57 PM
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Sorry for not being clear.

I got the links mixed up. The first one is actually the last one.

So I want to turn this:
http://postimg.org/image/4e4rvqjsn/

into something like this in terms of how the text is arranged on the page:

http://postimg.org/image/5rwer1j1z/

does this make sense now ?
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Old 11-20-2013, 03:55 PM
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I am not seeing what the problem is. Just the the reverse of what I suggested. Take out paragraph marks and arrange things the way you want. What - exactly - are you having a problem with? The second one is justified, but other than that, there is nothing special about it.
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Old 11-20-2013, 04:25 PM
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Well as I have said i'm a total beginner in word. My problem is that I would like for word to do this automatically for me without pressing enter or backspace to re arrange each line the way I want. And even if I press backspace in the example above things don't always line up the way I want, it is driving me crazy.
I thought that by clicking on the remove formatting button will solve this but that is not the case.
If I write the text myself from the beginning everything is ok but as soon as I copy/paste the text from somewhere else, in this case from a notepad file, it looks as above.
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Old 11-20-2013, 08:05 PM
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Sorry, but Word is not magical, nor does it read minds. It does exactly what it is told to do. So "automatically" may be possible, but you would have to determine PRECISELY every single possible rule and situation in advance, and tell Word PRECISELY what to do.

Shrug, may be possible but are you willing to put hours of work testing things to make sure it works the way you want?

Looking at what you have, you want to start with doing a justify to start. Clearly though your examples are NOT possible. Your end result has exactly even paragraphs, and your starting text has different size text text blocks. How are you going to make them all the same size? Take some text out of one paragraph and move it to a different paragraph? In which case, which one?

In any case, again it may be possible but you will need to state clearly exactly what the rules are.
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Old 12-02-2013, 08:38 AM
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Hello,

Came back with what I hope is a better illustration of what I want to achieve.

http://postimg.org/gallery/gm8lnes/

In the first photo is the text in its original form.
the second photo shows how the text looks like once pasted in Word.
Finally the 3rd photo shows how I would like it to look without having to press backspace countless time.

Is there a way to achieve this or am I out of luck ?
Thanks.
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Old 12-03-2013, 12:14 AM
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Familiar issue, typically when copy/pasting from .pdf – I'd deal with it in a text editor before trying to paste paragraphs into Word. Many editors give you options to select a block of lines and easily merge them into a single paragraph.

A quick web search seems to suggest you might be able to use search/replace on a selected block in Word; most hits refer to the post http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CleanWebText.htm
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Old 12-03-2013, 01:26 PM
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thank you so much, this was exactly what I needed, the article describes everything perfectly !
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