I have been converting a very large document (9,000 pages) from hardcopy to a Word file. I have OCR'd the document into an RTF file and ended up with page after page of usually OK copy, that is easy enough to clean up if there are any OCR errors.

However at about the halfway mark I've suddenly encountered page after page of text that has occasionally has divided itself into weird columns. These are not tables, and the only way I've so far been able to get rid of them is to paste it all into a Notepad document, delete the information in the Word doc and re-paste it in (after cleaning it up in Notepad).

I've tried just copying it and pasting it as text into the document, but that is fairly useless and it often just seems to end up back in these columns.

I've tried highlighting the text and removing the formatting (Control + Spacebar) but that doesn't work either.

As per this attachment, above is the text that has had the formatting screwed up, and below is how it should be.



Any ideas on how to fix this would be gratefully received.

Updated: I have also attached a snip showing the format marks, and another showing how columns are screwing things up if I delete Section Breaks.

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	Word doc problem.JPG (80.0 KB, 9 views)
	Word problem with break info.JPG (108.9 KB, 9 views)
	Word problem with column info.JPG (65.9 KB, 9 views)
	Word problem with column info2.JPG (83.4 KB, 9 views)