Changing paragraphs in text files

ZenEngineer · 08-15-2008, 01:43 PM

I don't know if this has been posted before, but this was a useful trick for me.
A friend gave me a .txt file to read. I tried to change the type size before saving it as a .rtf file for my Sony Reader, but every line was a paragraph and therefore unwrapped text (in a larger type size) made it unreadable. Another friend, who is a Word guru, told me this trick:

Select All
Find/Replace ^p^p (two paragraph marks) with ~
Find/Replace ^p with [space]
Find/Replace ~ with ^p^p

It worked great, keeping actual paragraphs together as paragraphs instead of separate lines.

If anybody has an easier fix please let me know.

HarryT · 08-15-2008, 01:46 PM

Stingo's Word macro. Does that and a heck of a lot more. See the Wiki.

ZenEngineer · 08-15-2008, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Stingo's Word macro. Does that and a heck of a lot more. See the Wiki.

Very nice! Thanks for the pointer.

blak4dr · 08-16-2008, 03:54 PM

I had made a macro using the same trick in Ultraedit until I discovered a javascript function doing the same thing only better

For those interested and using ultraedit, create a .js file and put that code in:

UltraEdit.activeDocument.selectAll();
UltraEdit.activeDocument.returnToWrap();

add it to your scripts and here you go.

08-15-2008, 01:43 PM	#1
ZenEngineer Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 92 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: California Device: Sony PRS-505	Changing paragraphs in text files I don't know if this has been posted before, but this was a useful trick for me. A friend gave me a .txt file to read. I tried to change the type size before saving it as a .rtf file for my Sony Reader, but every line was a paragraph and therefore unwrapped text (in a larger type size) made it unreadable. Another friend, who is a Word guru, told me this trick: Select All Find/Replace ^p^p (two paragraph marks) with ~ Find/Replace ^p with [space] Find/Replace ~ with ^p^p It worked great, keeping actual paragraphs together as paragraphs instead of separate lines. If anybody has an easier fix please let me know.

08-15-2008, 01:46 PM	#2
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 54,657 Karma: 26165759 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Touch, PW, Fire HD, iPad 3, iPhone 4, Samsung Tab 2 7 + More	Stingo's Word macro. Does that and a heck of a lot more. See the Wiki. __________________ Harry Currently proofreading The Poison Belt, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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08-16-2008, 03:54 PM	#4
blak4dr Connoisseur Posts: 99 Karma: 396 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Meuse, France Device: Cybook Opus, Acer Iconia Tab A500, Samsung Galaxy S2	I had made a macro using the same trick in Ultraedit until I discovered a javascript function doing the same thing only better For those interested and using ultraedit, create a .js file and put that code in: UltraEdit.activeDocument.selectAll(); UltraEdit.activeDocument.returnToWrap(); add it to your scripts and here you go.


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