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Roman - 11 May 2008 19:50 GMT

Notepad and Wordpad have the ability to turn text wrapping on or off, how can
I do this with Word?
I want to make a list of information where there is a new record on each
line and keep it as simple text. Even if I wrap to window, that's not enough
space sometimes.

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Herb Tyson [MVP] - 11 May 2008 22:15 GMT

For what you're describing, you're probably better off using Notepad,
Wordpad, or Excel.

Wordwrap is a feature. There is no way to turn it off. You can effectively
prevent Word from wrapping very long lines, however, by a combination of
setting the paper width really wide, setting the left/right margins very
small, setting the font size very small, and choosing Ignore instead of Fix
when/if Word tells you that the margins are set outside the printable area.

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> Notepad and Wordpad have the ability to turn text wrapping on or off, how
> can
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> enough
> space sometimes.

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Roman - 12 May 2008 02:05 GMT

Thank you. Indeed, maybe I should just use WordPad. Since the beginning of
time I think, notepad mysteriously adds line breaks when word wrapping is on
rather than just displaying it wrapped (in addition to other crazy behavior),
but that's another topic.

> For what you're describing, you're probably better off using Notepad,
> Wordpad, or Excel.
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> small, setting the font size very small, and choosing Ignore instead of Fix
> when/if Word tells you that the margins are set outside the printable area.

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