As long as I've been writing you'd think I know how to do this...

I copied a text document into Word. And it looks like a text document. Now when I type in changes, the new text will go over much farther than the original test. And sometimes it creates breaks in sentences where I don't want them. It looks like this:

I have no idea what
I'm doing because I usually use Wordpad. I guess that might
be a mistake. But I know
now why I do.
My simple mind can't handle so many options! <bg>

My question is... how can I get the entire document to look uniform without the tedious line by line work?

Please help me!

SQD (thanks)

Select All (CTRL A) and highlight *all* your text. Then move the right margin to where you want it. That will integrate the new text into the old text.
Or if you have .docx, go to "View" and "Draft" in a banner that appears when you click View. I do it all the time. I just realized I do it in .doc too. That's how I beta read versions side by side on the screen.
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Artemis

Tried those suggestions... not working. I copied a document into Word and it was set as text, which has the copied document short and choppy. When I edit, the sentences run longer, to the set margin. However, nothing I've tried resets the copied text. It's all short and choppy looking with sentences here and there that stretch out farther.

SQD

I don't understand why it is doing that. Send me a hunk of both new a old on my e-mail and let me play with it. Somehow your text is locked. Do you have other options on how to save the original text? That might be the key.
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Artemis

Okay, the problem is that for some reason in TXT format you have a carriage return at the end of each line. You can fix this easily, but it takes some steps:

Step One: Make sure you have an extra Carriage Return / paragraph break between each paragraph.

Step Two: Open the Find/Replace box (I usually use Cntl-F and then Click on the Replace tab).

Step Three: Replace each paragraph break with some funky symbol. So in the "Find What" box put:

^p^p

(^p = paragraph break in WORD computer speak)

In the "Replace With" box put your funky symbol. On my test run to see if this would work I used this symbol:

~

Step Four: Don't freak out!

Step Five: Now, replace all single carriage returns with nothing. So, in the "Find What" box put:

^p

And in the "Replace With" box put:


(that really means nothing, no space, nada)

Step Six: Don't Freak out! Now, we'll fix what looks like a mess.

Step Seven: Replace funky symbol with paragraph breaks again. So, in the "Find What" box put your funky symbol:

~

In the "Replace What" box put back your double carriage returns:

^p^p

Step Eight: Dance with Joy.

Hope this helps.

I think Virginia is probably right. That's what the major epub problem was. I could still play with it if you want. Send to jumpstick@earthlink.net . I have to go to a Dr. appt soon.
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Artemis

Virginia,

Steps 4, 6, and 9 should be included in every how to manual where needed!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! (Now if I can just remember how to do that if it happens again! )

SQD (who has Double Jeopardy ready to go to archive, a rewrite waiting on go, and at least three more stories to edit- BUT (didn't you know there was one of those?) brand new laptop crashed two days in. Waiting on tech to come out. So frustrating!)

Save Virginia's instructions! The carriage return was required in posting to the Archive before recent changes. Now they post in Word.
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Artemis

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by stopquitdont:
<strong> Virginia,

Steps 4, 6, and 9 should be included in every how to manual where needed! New SQD stories!

Understand about the laptop. Still trying to get used to mine. At one point it froze and nothing helped, not even pressing the power button. Eventually I just popped out the battery and put it back in, good as new. Aren't these new technological things supposed to be a help, not a hendrence? :rolleyes: Much prefer my desktop, thank you very much.