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Aminam20
Copper Contributor
May 02, 2020

Copy from PDF into Word, automatic format

Dear All,

 

I am copying (making a summary) out a pdf file, which uses a smaller line width than the word file where I paste it in. I estimate to make about 200 of these actions, and if I cant automatically erase the enters at the end of each paste, I estimate that it requires on average another 3 edits per paste. 

 

Perhaps I have missed an option in the word formatting, but I cant figure it out.

Please see attached for an example.

Appreciate the help!!

  • It is because you are copying from another application. It converts the end of each line as a paragraph mark.

    You can save yourself the stress of making the edits by copying all the contents. Select all the affected lines and replace paragraph marks with space.

    Cheers
  • wumolad's avatar
    wumolad
    Steel Contributor
    It is because you are copying from another application. It converts the end of each line as a paragraph mark.

    You can save yourself the stress of making the edits by copying all the contents. Select all the affected lines and replace paragraph marks with space.

    Cheers
    • Aminam20's avatar
      Aminam20
      Copper Contributor

      wumolad Thanks for your reply.

      "You can save yourself the stress of making the edits by copying all the contents." 
      I am not sure what you mean here. I only copy some select parts out of a 1500page doc manually.

      "paragraph marks with space."
      I am kinda struggling to do this. I am working in 'Find and Replace' now, managed to use 'Special' to insert the paragraph sign, but cant replace it with a space. 

      Any advise for this? 

      Thanks!

      • Aminam20 Do not use the symbol ΒΆ, because that isn't the paragraph mark you see when displaying nonprinting characters. In the Find/Replace dialog, use the code ^p to represent the paragraph mark. (In the list from the Special button, use "Paragraph Mark" and not "Paragraph Character", which will insert the ^p in the dialog's box, or you can just type ^p in the box.)

         

        More on this at http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/CleanWebText.htm

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