I wasn't here when Phil sent his request. I know there's been an answer. But for those of you looking for a wordprocessor that strips carriage returns, try Nisus. The find and replace is particularly powerful. www.nisus.com
There's also a macro (provided) called form paragraph, which will take a chunk of text which has carriage returns, and form it into a paragraph. As column readers will know, Nisus is my favourite wordprocessor. These features are one reason. Ranulph On 28 Apr 2010, at 12:33, Phil Ward wrote: > No apology necessary John, not even close! > > P > > -- > Phil Ward > > T: 01273 571980 > T: 07971 961987 > Skype: aphilw > E: [email protected] > www.myspace.com/philwardmusic > > • Freelance writer and product designer. > • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. > • Consultant Designer of the Acoustic Energy AE22 nearfield monitor. > • Regular contributor to Sound on Sound and Performing Musician magazines. > > On 28 Apr 2010, at 12:28, Mr J Hodges wrote: > >> Sorry Phil, I sent my reply before I read the others - oops. Look good, >> though, I may get it - well done for finding it. >> >> John >> ________________________________________ >> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Ward >> [[email protected]] >> Sent: 28 April 2010 12:27 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [sussex_mug] Stripping Out Carriage Returns >> >> Thanks all. >> >> Some of you may not have noticed that I found a nice little utility that >> does the job: >> >> http://mailsteward.com/wordwrapper/ >> >> Nice thing is that it will process a text file that's on the system >> clipboard. So I can copy a block from Word, "wordwrap" the clipboard and >> paste cleaned-up text into Indesign. Easily worth $15. >> >> Phil >> >> -- >> Phil Ward >> >> T: 01273 571980 >> T: 07971 961987 >> Skype: aphilw >> E: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> www.myspace.com/philwardmusic<http://www.myspace.com/philwardmusic> >> >> • Freelance writer and product designer. >> • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. >> www.veilletteguitars.com<http://www.veilletteguitars.com>. >> • Consultant Designer of the Acoustic Energy AE22 nearfield monitor. >> • Regular contributor to Sound on Sound and Performing Musician magazines. >> >> On 28 Apr 2010, at 12:09, Mr J Hodges wrote: >> >> Phil, >> >> You could do a 'search/find and replace' on the 'return' putting in a >> 'space' but instead of clicking 'apply to all' (or whatever) click 'next' >> for subsequent surplus returns and then 'skip' for the ones you want to keep. >> >> I know it works in Quark and Word but the phraseology is different for >> different apps. >> >> Good luck, >> John >> ________________________________________ >> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Ward [[email protected]] >> Sent: 28 April 2010 11:25 >> To: SMUG >> Subject: [sussex_mug] Stripping Out Carriage Returns >> >> All, >> >> Does anybody know of an application that will strip out unnecessary carriage >> returns in a Word (or rtf or text) document. A translator has supplied me >> some copy in which they've inserted lots of unnecessary carriage returns, >> presumably in order to make the column width look like the finished document >> layout. 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