Broken Paragraphs in MS Word

[LordP]

Sorry, it seems VB stuff is unwanted.

[Quoth]

Define "Broken paragraph"?

For over 20 years I and others have disabled VB in MS Office for security.

Can't this be done with search or search and replace?

[LordP]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Define "Broken paragraph"?

For over 20 years I and others have disabled VB in MS Office for security.

Can't this be done with search or search and replace?

I've done a lot of work in MS Word and I've never disabled VB. I even wrote a 600-page technical manual with it.


A text file that looks like this:

This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it

under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

[LordP]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Define "Broken paragraph"?

For over 20 years I and others have disabled VB in MS Office for security.

Can't this be done with search or search and replace?

Clearly, you seem to think there might be possible harm in this, so I'm removing everything.

[Quoth]

That text file can be fixed with a regex search and replace. Doesn't need VBA. I've been fixing that for years in Word and now in LO Writer.

I've used word-processing for manuals, project proposals, training materials and novels. MS Word for Windows since about Office 4.3. I've never enabled or needed to use VBA in Word and about twice in Excel in maybe over 25 years (stuff that should have been a program). I used to teach word-processing and DTP as well as programming (real VB6, C++, Modula-2, Forth, SQL etc).

Edit:
If it's a downloaded epub it's also easily fixed in Calibre without export as a docx and re-conversion back to epub.