Unwanted Wrapping of words in MS Word

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Hari Prasadh - 19 Jan 2005 14:53 GMT

Hi,

Word 2002. I am not comfortable with word (work with excel mainly)

Sometimes when I paste text from some other document to Word then, even
though the Right Margin will be set to a reasonable extent to the right, the
lines will start wrapping (Wrapping - Am I using the correct terminology ?)
and I have to go to each end of the line and then press delete and the line
below will come up and then give a space and then continue this process till
the end of the document.

Why does this happen? Any easy way to handle/ correct it?

For example I write a long newsmessage in Outlook Express and post it to MS
news server. When I download it to my outlook express and copy paste the
message to Word, it will start wrapping all the way over. This is just an
example and unpredictable happens sometimes when copy/paste from other
programs in to Word.

Am I posting in the right sub-forum of word? There are so many that am
confused whether to post in microsoft.pubic.word.longdocs.formatting. Is
there no forum separately for "formatting" of documents which are not long?
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Thanks a lot,
Hari
India

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Jay Freedman - 19 Jan 2005 15:22 GMT

Hi Hari,

Other applications such as Outlook Express and Internet Exporer often insert
line break characters at the ends of their lines, so they can control what
you see in those windows. When you copy that text and paste it into Word,
the line breaks come with it. Sometimes Word sees them as paragraph marks,
and sometimes as manual line breaks. These are the characters you remove
when you press Delete at the end of the line.

There is a quicker way to remove the characters in Word, using the Edit >
Replace command. This process is described at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm.

You aren't the only one confused by the number and names of the newsgroups.
Descriptions and hints are posted at
http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/WhichNewgrp.htm. This group is OK for your
question.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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Hari Prasadh - 19 Jan 2005 17:57 GMT

Hi Jay,

Thnx a lot for your kind reply to my doubts.
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Regards,
Hari
India

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