I have text documents that have Cr at the end of each sentence. It really wrecks havoc trying to convert these texts to an ebook format. I wonder if there is a macro that would strip these cr from the text leaving a cr/lf at the end of each paragraph. If not a macro then a way to use find/replace to do it.


Thanks,
Paul

forgot to mention. OS: Windows XP Pro Office 2003

It seems doable with 3 replace operation. Replace cr/lf with a unique phrase '@@' for example; then replace Cr with nothing; Replace '@@' with cr/lf.

Please check out another similar thread.

Yes, I checked that one first. Unfortunately, the poster found his solution and didn't share it. Also I try to do a replace operation like this: Find ^|^| Replace: @@

I get the msg: "searched document made 0 replacements"

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In your case, it's cr/lf, not ^|^|.

I tried that. Same response

Didn't you say there is cr/lf at the end of each paragraph?

The solution is very simple - replace operation, but you must figure what to be replaced.

Well when I reveal the codes I see a paragraph symbol at the end of each line, then the next 2 lines each have a single paragraph symbol then another line of text and then the process repeats. What I want to do is have a paragraph symbol only at the end of a paragraph.

If your document doesn't contain sensitive information, you can upload it here, I will see if I can find a replace pattern.

Ok here is a sample
Thanks,
Paul

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Your sample text seems to have only one paragraph, I can't give you complete instruction based on it. It's easy to remove those 3 consecutive paragraph marks, just replace ^p^p^p with nothing, but this replace operation may remove the paragraph marks that you want to keep.