I am in the process of revising a book written in Ami-Pro. I have
converted it to Word but the width of text is not as I would wish.

Example (1) This is how I would like it to appear (using A4), after
manually adjusting each line:

No system is perfect. If the US system of justice had been perfect, I
doubt if I would ever have heard of Fry Guy – never mind interview
him. For Fry Guy was only fifteen at the time of his credit card scam.
He was therefore a juvenile and, according to the rules, all court
documents have to be sealed to protect the interests of the juvenile
from - I suppose - people like me. The Secret Service had included
three other hackers, none of them a juvenile, in the same documents.
Perhaps no one had bothered to check Fry Guy's age. Procedures are not
always followed and rules do get broken. Every day.

Example (2) But this is how it appears at present:

In September 1989, the company that I worked for had been hit
by a computer virus, called Jerusalem. According to the media,
Jerusalem spelt disaster for all our precious computer files.
It became notorious and attracted banner headlines at the time
because, supposedly, it could lurk unnoticed for months before
manifesting itself on a Friday the Thirteenth. Then it would
cause devastation. 

End of Examples.

Any ideas for effecting a global change, please?

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 05 Apr 2003 06:02 PST

Hi, j-philipp, Once Again

Many thanks for your prompt and helpful response, once again.

Special Paste (Unformatted Text) did the job perfectly. 

Please post your comments as the answer.

I will go down to the store straight away to see if there are Twinklers left.

Any news of the Chardonnay?

Kindest regards

Bryan

Hi Bryan,

Thanks for accepting my comment as answer! If you have Chardonnay left
just drop it in the ocean. It seems we share the same time zone, and I
will visit the beach end of this month.


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The first idea that comes to mind is to replace all line-breaks by
spaces. Since you don't want to replace line-breaks between paragraphs
you need to temporarily replace double line-breaks with a unique
string. The process is outlined here:
 
Re: Need a Formatting Guru for Word Wrap Question (by Suzanne S.
Barnhill)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=eaY7mKCcAHA.1932%40tkmsftngp04 
 
"It sounds as if you are having problems pasting in text that has line
or paragraphs breaks at the ends of lines. This is not Word's problem,
but Word offers various ways to solve it. If the breaks are actually
paragraph breaks (very unlikely with Web text), AutoFormat (at the
Email setting) will usually take care of it. In the more likely event
that the breaks are line breaks, provided you have two line breaks (a
"blank line") between true paragraphs, you need just two Find and
Replace operations:
 
1. Find ^l^l (two line breaks) and replace with ^p (a paragraph
break).
 
2. Find ^l (a single line break) and replace with a space. 
 
It has also been discovered that centering text and then resetting it
to left alignment will get rid of leading spaces (when they have been
used to indent text). You can also select columns of text (such as
blocks of spaces) by pressing Alt while you drag.
 
Sometimes you can get around wrapping problems by using Paste Special
as Unformatted Text.
 
Note that none of this has anything to do with line justification; it
has to do with wrapping, and lines can't wrap if they end in hard
breaks."
 
 
Search strategy: 
Google Groups 
 
Search terms: 
replace "line breaks" "microsoft word"

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Request for Answer Clarification by probonopublico-ga on 06 Apr 2003 00:03 PST

Hi, JP

Many thanks for your answer which will certainly earn the FIVE
TWINKERS but how do you know that we share 'same time zone'?

And, even if you are right (mine's GMT), the pilot will need some
coordinates if he's going to make a drop in the ocean.

And which ocean, damn it!

I would guess the Indian Ocean but, equally, it might be the Pacific.

Are there any others?

Or shall I have to post another question?

C'mon don't just say something, stand there!

KR
Bryan

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Clarification of Answer by j_philipp-ga on 06 Apr 2003 03:03 PDT

Hello Bryan,

I don't know where you live but you're one of the regular customers
who's awake when I am, which is why I think the bottle won't have to
travel too far! (Agreed, this theory is far from bullet-proof since
you could be a night-owl.)
Before you get the chance to ask, I'm a German living in Malaysia.
Maybe you can post a new question concerning the reliability of
sending bottles from coast to coast, or how many oceans there are (and
if there ever was a fish travelling all of them). It would certainly
fill me with a mixture of guilt and pride to have tickled your
curiosity enough to result in a new spin-off question!

Gut morgen, mein Herr!

Ich bin ein Engelander und Ich wohne in Engeland.

But, let's face it, my German's lousy, corrupted by having lived for 5
years in Holland.

Now, I am perfectly fluent in a concoction of several languages that
nobody understands except moi.

I am an early riser ... 5 a.m every day of the week. Always have been.

I've been to Kuala Lumpur but I never saw you anywhere.

I have given a flight plan to my pilot.

Prost!

Hello Probonopublico,

The first idea that comes to mind is to replace all line-breaks by
spaces. Since you don't want to replace line-breaks between paragraphs
you need to temporarily replace double line-breaks with a unique
string. The process is outlined here:

Re: Need a Formatting Guru for Word Wrap Question (by Suzanne S.
Barnhill)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=eaY7mKCcAHA.1932%40tkmsftngp04

"It sounds as if you are having problems pasting in text that has line
or paragraphs breaks at the ends of lines. This is not Word's problem,
but Word offers various ways to solve it. If the breaks are actually
paragraph breaks (very unlikely with Web text), AutoFormat (at the
Email setting) will usually take care of it. In the more likely event
that the breaks are line breaks, provided you have two line breaks (a
"blank line") between true paragraphs, you need just two Find and
Replace operations:

1. Find ^l^l (two line breaks) and replace with ^p (a paragraph
break).

2. Find ^l (a single line break) and replace with a space.

It has also been discovered that centering text and then resetting it
to left alignment will get rid of leading spaces (when they have been
used to indent text). You can also select columns of text (such as
blocks of spaces) by pressing Alt while you drag.

Sometimes you can get around wrapping problems by using Paste Special
as Unformatted Text.

Note that none of this has anything to do with line justification; it
has to do with wrapping, and lines can't wrap if they end in hard
breaks."


If this answers your question I'd be happy to post in the answer spot.
Let me know if it works, or if I misunderstood the problem!


Search strategy:
Google Groups

Search terms:
replace "line breaks" "microsoft word"

For *all* questions of support for MS stuff, your first port of call
should be www.mvps.org.

And yes - if you have hard line breaks - lose 'em.  Then just adjust
your indents.