Windows 7: Word 2010 - Text Condensation

Dear All,



I have the following issue.

I have a text in microsoft word 2010 with this style :

i
want to
go
home

and i want it to be converted to seem like this
i want to go home

ie, multiple lines, to become one.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance,
John

me too have this problem... basically when we are copying something form the pdf format to the word one... i use to do it manually ... if some body can help it will be great

Same thing...copying from pdf gets me this...hope there is a solution!

First, alignment it justify.

Put cursor in front of the second line , backspace > space > end

Enter to go tho the next line. From the next time ...

home > backspace > space > end and then enter

upto the end of the document. No other eay to fix it, as far as I know.

Thank you!

Find - Replace command in MS Word is a great tool for such things.

As each line ends with a paragraph mark (EOL character), you can concatenate (join) the lines using the Find - Replace command.

For applying the command throughout the document just use the command below. For only a selection of text, first select the text and then use the command below.

Open the Find dialog box, in Find field type "^p" (^p for paragraph character) and in Replace field " " (a single space). Do a Replace All or Replace for each Find.

After this to remove extra spaces keeping only one space between words,

In Find field type " " (two spaces) and in Replace field " " (one space) and then do a Replace ALL a few times till the dialog box says "0 replacements".

This trick can be used to remove manual line breaks (^l), manual page breaks (^m), tab character (^t), non breaking space (^s), non breaking hiphen (^~), section break (^b) etc. in one go with Replace All command.