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Daveinolywa - 16 Jan 2004 13:17 GMT

I have run into a problem where I have cut and paste text
from an e-mail document to Word. The problem is that the
line length is shorter than the line length in Word
resulting in smaller body.

Other than deleting the line breaks, how could I re format
the document to align with the margins in Word?

please send a response to e-mail address listed below.
please remove "SPAM".

lacSPAMlau6609@hotmail.com

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Graham Mayor - 16 Jan 2004 13:48 GMT

This is a user forum, not a help desk. You must come here for your replies.
The 'problem' here is that e-mail documents are plain text with hard
returns, thus every line is a paragraph. You could use the replace function
easily enough, or you could download the simple stripmail tool from the
doenloads page of my web site, which handles the formatting for you. Copy
the text to the clipboard. Paste into strip mail, format, then paste into
Word.

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> I have run into a problem where I have cut and paste text
> from an e-mail document to Word. The problem is that the
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- 16 Jan 2004 15:10 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>This is a user forum, not a help desk. You must come here for your replies.
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>exactly how would i use the replace function??

i tried it several different ways and never got any
satifactory results.

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Graham Mayor - 16 Jan 2004 16:21 GMT

Messages are formatted with hard returns or line feeds so first thing is to
determine which by displaying them (CTRL+*)

For paragraph marks
Use a wildcard search for
^13([!^13])
replace with
\1

There's a space at the beginning of the replace line.

For line feeds replace (not wildcard)
^13
to
^l
(that's lower case L)

Better still replace ^l with ^p first. and search the first suggested
pattern.

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> i tried it several different ways and never got any
> satifactory results.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 16 Jan 2004 15:25 GMT

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

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> I have run into a problem where I have cut and paste text
> from an e-mail document to Word. The problem is that the
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> lacSPAMlau6609@hotmail.com

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