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Old 08-15-2008, 01:43 PM   #1
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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.
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