> you might want to adopt Paragraph Spacing in Word, like the experts do.
For goodness sake, Paul, I'm as expert as the next professional when it comes to using Word for what I want, ie, sub-editing pre-pub for artist flow-in into Quark. Using Paragraph Spacing is the *last* thing anyone in the professional side of pre-press would do, for reasons obvious to those in the business. I take your advice about swapping ^p for ^l which I'll have to do in future. It works. But I'm annoyed I have to take the extra steps which were totally unnecessary in Ent for OS9. The whole point for new release software is to *save* work, not *create* it. On top of which *all* elements of Office are agonisingly slow and unresponsive compared with Office OS 9. Cheers, Ian ----- > On 4/7/02 4:54 PM, "Ian Horner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have another command + V problem... when I save text from Word X and paste >> it into Entourage X my text picks up double returns instead of single >> returns. >> >> This never happened in Entourage for OS 9. > > But it _is_ intentional. The reason is that people who are expert in word > processors like Word do not type a second carriage return for paragraph > separations there - instead they set their Styles to follow a single > carriage return -- i.e. a paragraph ending -- with extra space. You can set > this easily in the Formatting Palette in Word (Alignment and > Spacing/Paragraph Spacing/After and elsewhere. I believe that it's usually > set to about 8 pts. > > So people who who using Word properly like this found that they weren't > getting paragraph spacing when pasting into Entourage, which is not a > complex word processor but has just some primitive text editor capabilities. > Therefore the behaviour was changed to double-up carriage returns when > pasting from Word to Entourage: if there's one CR (with or without added > paragraph spacing) in Word, you get two in Entourage. > > you might want to adopt Paragraph Spacing in Word, like the experts do. > Alternatively, or when you have lists in Word where you _don't_ want any > added spacing and/or don't want double CRs in Entourage when pasting, use > shift-return to make special CRs. They add no spacing and will not double up > when pasting into Entourage. > >> I often have to send my radio rundowns or magazine feature stories in email >> body rather than attachments. The magazine stories are pre-subbed, ready for >> the Quark artist. >> >> To have to sit down and re-sub thousands of words while sitting on tight >> deadlines is nothing short of a damn nuisance. > > Change your returns to shift-returns. You can do all of them at once in > Word: it will take just a second or so: > > Edit menu/Replace > > Find: ^p > Replace: ^l [that's a lower-case L] > > Click the Replace All button. > > Voila! -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
