Gilly,

Flushing your own head down the loo is much nicer than using Word!

Phil

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On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:17, Gillian Snoxall wrote:

> Ranulph,
> 
> You introduced me to Nisus a year or two ago, and I love it. Much nicer than 
> Word!
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for an email program other than Mail?
> 
> Gilly
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> On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:06, Ranulph Glanville wrote:
> 
>> 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
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>>> 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
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>>>> 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. Of course it's now a painful nightmare to 
>>>> drop the new text into InDesign.
>>>> 
>>>> Phil
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