Good luck. If the document is formatted double space, then you will need to go into the format menu to change things.
-----Original Message----- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 7:35 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Virgil, Thank you very much for this! I'll give it a try. Take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. ----- Original Message ----- From: Virgil Cook To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Open the Find and Replace menu with control-h. Route the Jaws cursor to the PC cursor. Go to the bottom line with the end key and then press home to move the cursor to the bottom line. Use insert-right arrow to move across the line a word at a time. The first word should be "more." Left click on that word with the slash on the numeric keypad.. Press home and move to the right again with insert-right arrow. The first word should be "format," and the next word should be "special." Left click on "special" with the slash on the numeric keypad. The first word in the list should be "paragraph mark," the word that Microsoft uses for a hard return. After clicking, use insert-right arrow to "replace." I usually replace the paragraph mark with a space to prevent the word at the end of one line coming together with the word at the beginning of the next line. Then press alt-a to replace all occurrences of the word. Then press OK. Then exit the Find and Replace menu with escape. If you are using two lines to mark a paragraph, then you will have to be creative in preventing eliminating the double lines. Reply to me offline if you want my way of doing that, which is by no means sacred. -----Original Message----- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:48 PM To: Jaws-Users List Subject: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi All, I am running XPSP3 Pro, J13 latest, & Office 2002. I have an 85 page Word document that could probably be cut down to half this size if I could delete all the blank lines. Is there a way to delete the blank lines only? All help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks much, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
