Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
Hi Flor. Is there somewhere we could get a list of these characters? Damien. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: 03 August 2012 03:23 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document then make it single-space. Presumably, the document is not for public presentation, else why remove the paragraph breaks. - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:27 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document 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/ 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
Negoslav, I think that's ^a for graphics. ^g is given (in my version, 2010) for digits. having activated the More... button with spacebar, tab, and when you see the Special button menu you arrow down into the list of characters and the keys that denote each of them. - Original Message - From: Negoslav Sabev neg...@gmail.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:51 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document And ^g is for graphics in the document. Negoslav - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch florl...@iol.ie To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:26 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document ^p is a paragraph break; ^l is a line break. Sometimes tab breaks (bt) can create unneeded extra space. You could remove them also, if desired. (It might be desireable to replace ^t with a single space - usually that is ^s.) - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor, Hot Damn! Thank you, thank you, thank you! That took this document down from 85 pages to 45 pages! It made 2,859 replacements! Does the, ^p, represent blank lines? Or, what does, ^p, tell the replacement option to do? I mean, I've witnessed the obvious but, I'm just wondering what the, ^p, represents! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/ 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
A correction is included now in the below. . - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch florl...@iol.ie To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Negoslav, I think that's ^a for graphics. ^g is given (in my version, 2002) for digits. having activated the More... button with spacebar, tab, and when you see the Special button menu you arrow down into the list of characters and the keys that denote each of them. - Original Message - From: Negoslav Sabev neg...@gmail.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:51 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document And ^g is for graphics in the document. Negoslav - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch florl...@iol.ie To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:26 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document ^p is a paragraph break; ^l is a line break. Sometimes tab breaks (bt) can create unneeded extra space. You could remove them also, if desired. (It might be desireable to replace ^t with a single space - usually that is ^s.) - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor, Hot Damn! Thank you, thank you, thank you! That took this document down from 85 pages to 45 pages! It made 2,859 replacements! Does the, ^p, represent blank lines? Or, what does, ^p, tell the replacement option to do? I mean, I've witnessed the obvious but, I'm just wondering what the, ^p, represents! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/ 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
In 2007 version (and I think it's true for 2003 also) ^g is for graphics. Negoslav - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch florl...@iol.ie To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document A correction is included now in the below. . - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch florl...@iol.ie To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Negoslav, I think that's ^a for graphics. ^g is given (in my version, 2002) for digits. having activated the More... button with spacebar, tab, and when you see the Special button menu you arrow down into the list of characters and the keys that denote each of them. - Original Message - From: Negoslav Sabev neg...@gmail.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:51 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document And ^g is for graphics in the document. Negoslav - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch florl...@iol.ie To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:26 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document ^p is a paragraph break; ^l is a line break. Sometimes tab breaks (bt) can create unneeded extra space. You could remove them also, if desired. (It might be desireable to replace ^t with a single space - usually that is ^s.) - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor, Hot Damn! Thank you, thank you, thank you! That took this document down from 85 pages to 45 pages! It made 2,859 replacements! Does the, ^p, represent blank lines? Or, what does, ^p, tell the replacement option to do? I mean, I've witnessed the obvious but, I'm just wondering what the, ^p, represents! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/ 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
When you click on the Special menu, you can scroll down the list to see what each character represent. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Damien O'Connor Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:47 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor. Is there somewhere we could get a list of these characters? Damien. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: 03 August 2012 03:23 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document then make it single-space. Presumably, the document is not for public presentation, else why remove the paragraph breaks. - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:27 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document 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/ 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
Does this work in MS Word 2007 as well? Jerry Martin - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document When you click on the Special menu, you can scroll down the list to see what each character represent. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Damien O'Connor Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:47 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor. Is there somewhere we could get a list of these characters? Damien. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: 03 August 2012 03:23 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document then make it single-space. Presumably, the document is not for public presentation, else why remove the paragraph breaks. - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:27 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document 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/ 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
Hi Flor, Virgil, Negoslav, I, I'm very sure many others, totally appreciate all these additional tips on using find replace in MS Word. Personally, I had no idea find replace has all of these options! I have only used FR to take out greater than signs easy tasks like that. Thank you very much for all this great information! Take care. Mike This email was sent from our, iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1! - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document A correction is included now in the below. . - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch florl...@iol.ie To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Negoslav, I think that's ^a for graphics. ^g is given (in my version, 2002) for digits. having activated the More... button with spacebar, tab, and when you see the Special button menu you arrow down into the list of characters and the keys that denote each of them. - Original Message - From: Negoslav Sabev neg...@gmail.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:51 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document And ^g is for graphics in the document. Negoslav - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch florl...@iol.ie To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:26 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document ^p is a paragraph break; ^l is a line break. Sometimes tab breaks (bt) can create unneeded extra space. You could remove them also, if desired. (It might be desireable to replace ^t with a single space - usually that is ^s.) - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor, Hot Damn! Thank you, thank you, thank you! That took this document down from 85 pages to 45 pages! It made 2,859 replacements! Does the, ^p, represent blank lines? Or, what does, ^p, tell the replacement option to do? I mean, I've witnessed the obvious but, I'm just wondering what the, ^p, represents! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/ 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
If it's there it'll work. In a document press control h and then tab through the Find Replace dialogue. If you see a more button, activate it with the spacebar and then tab through. You may then see a Special button menu, described as before. - Original Message - From: jerry martin jandymar...@clear.net To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Does this work in MS Word 2007 as well? Jerry Martin - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document When you click on the Special menu, you can scroll down the list to see what each character represent. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Damien O'Connor Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:47 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor. Is there somewhere we could get a list of these characters? Damien. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: 03 August 2012 03:23 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document then make it single-space. Presumably, the document is not for public presentation, else why remove the paragraph breaks. - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:27 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document 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/ 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
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
It probably does. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of jerry martin Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 12:44 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Does this work in MS Word 2007 as well? Jerry Martin - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document When you click on the Special menu, you can scroll down the list to see what each character represent. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Damien O'Connor Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:47 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor. Is there somewhere we could get a list of these characters? Damien. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: 03 August 2012 03:23 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document then make it single-space. Presumably, the document is not for public presentation, else why remove the paragraph breaks. - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:27 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document 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/ 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
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/
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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
Hi Flor, Hot Damn! Thank you, thank you, thank you! That took this document down from 85 pages to 45 pages! It made 2,859 replacements! Does the, ^p, represent blank lines? Or, what does, ^p, tell the replacement option to do? I mean, I've witnessed the obvious but, I'm just wondering what the, ^p, represents! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/
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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
Caret p is the paragraph mark. Caret k is a page break, and caret T is the tab character. If you know those letters, you don't have to scroll down through them. -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 6:56 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor, Hot Damn! Thank you, thank you, thank you! That took this document down from 85 pages to 45 pages! It made 2,859 replacements! Does the, ^p, represent blank lines? Or, what does, ^p, tell the replacement option to do? I mean, I've witnessed the obvious but, I'm just wondering what the, ^p, represents! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
^l is the line-break character which Word automatically inserts when a line-break has been reached. It's unlikely that ^p will occur at a point where there's no period - unless you're dealing with poetry (which is an entirely different matter). We may not want there to be 2 spaces often in mid-sentence, as may occur when you insert a space as the replacement character. - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Caret p is the paragraph mark. Caret k is a page break, and caret T is the tab character. If you know those letters, you don't have to scroll down through them. -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 6:56 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor, Hot Damn! Thank you, thank you, thank you! That took this document down from 85 pages to 45 pages! It made 2,859 replacements! Does the, ^p, represent blank lines? Or, what does, ^p, tell the replacement option to do? I mean, I've witnessed the obvious but, I'm just wondering what the, ^p, represents! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
then make it single-space. Presumably, the document is not for public presentation, else why remove the paragraph breaks. - Original Message - From: Virgil Cook vc...@vt.edu To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:27 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
^p is a paragraph break; ^l is a line break. Sometimes tab breaks (bt) can create unneeded extra space. You could remove them also, if desired. (It might be desireable to replace ^t with a single space - usually that is ^s.) - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor, Hot Damn! Thank you, thank you, thank you! That took this document down from 85 pages to 45 pages! It made 2,859 replacements! Does the, ^p, represent blank lines? Or, what does, ^p, tell the replacement option to do? I mean, I've witnessed the obvious but, I'm just wondering what the, ^p, represents! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document
And ^g is for graphics in the document. Negoslav - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch florl...@iol.ie To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:26 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document ^p is a paragraph break; ^l is a line break. Sometimes tab breaks (bt) can create unneeded extra space. You could remove them also, if desired. (It might be desireable to replace ^t with a single space - usually that is ^s.) - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Flor, Hot Damn! Thank you, thank you, thank you! That took this document down from 85 pages to 45 pages! It made 2,859 replacements! Does the, ^p, represent blank lines? Or, what does, ^p, tell the replacement option to do? I mean, I've witnessed the obvious but, I'm just wondering what the, ^p, represents! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my iGasSucking460Powered1969Mach1. - Original Message - From: Flor Lynch To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Deleting Blank Lines in a Word Document Hi Mike, In your document, press control+h to go into your Find Replace dialogue. In the Find field, type ^p . [carat p.] leave the Replacement field blank. tab to Replace All or press alt+a. After a bit, word will tell you that it has made xxx replacements, xxx being the number of them. OK button. If you don't see the ^p option (if it's grayed out), then activate the Special button menu by pressing spacebar on it. It's on one of the tabs in the FR dialogue. HTH. - Original Message - From: Mike B. mb69ma...@charter.net To: Jaws-Users List jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:47 PM 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
