cut and paste from a document to Word

[Manny]

Hi, I have Microsoft Word 2013 and I have tried importing pdf files for editing but it does not work very well. I recently downloaded a free PDF converter which is called AbleWord which is a very basic PDF converter and does very well. My problem is that I opened the PDF file and cut & pasted the text into my Word document. Everything was fine except that the original text came from a document that was only 6.5" wide and I was importing into an 81/2 x 11" document. I thought that the paragraph would automatically spread out to fit the new larger space but it did not; so I tried selecting the text & clicked on clear formatting but to no avail. This was a relatively short paragraph so I manually edited the text to fill the larger space. You can see that this would be time consuming to the max if you had a lot of text. What am I doing wrong or do you think that there is a problem with the PDF converter? Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.



Manny

[macropod]

PDF files, emails, web pages, etc. often end up with unwanted lines breaks at the end of every line when imported into other programs; that just a reality of how the data sometimes get stored in the source. For a macro to clean up such text, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...html#post24698

[Manny]

Your advice was spot on. Everything working within normal parameters. Thanks for the help.

Manny