Hi,
There is a another way to get the paragraph marks out from the end of each
line while letting the real paragraph marks stay.
In Word (and probably other word processors):
Go to Edit--> Replace
In the Replace Dialogue box type (without quotation marks): ".^"
(period-paragraph mark) and replace that with "./" (period-slash) - Click to
replace "ALL". This changes all the real paragraph marks into slashes.
After that repeat the Replace dialogue and replace all the rest of the
paragraph marks with spaces.
Finally replace all the slashes with paragraph marks. (to make real
paragraphs)
This is only three moves instead having to repeat the process for each
paragraph.
Possible errors may happen where there was a period at an end of the line
but not at the end of a paragraph (this would be interpreted as an end of a
paragraph. Another error can happen if there are any slashes in the text.
Instead of a slash - one can use some other rare character like "{" (curly
brackets) or # etc.
I hope this will help.
Ana
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Barowy [mailto:wbarowy@attbi.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:00 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Paragraph Marks
Generally when cutting and pasting into word from Acrobat Reader, paragraphs
are delineated by one "Paragraph Mark" (PM for short) and the end of line
by
one, as you noted.
So one strategy to use is to mark the text consituting the paragraph and
then
replace the PM with nothing. Using the "find and replace" dialogue box put
the PM in the "find what" field and leave the "replace with" field empty. PM
is a choice in the "special" pop-up menu. MS word will just do the
replacement in the selection only. It'll prompt you if you want to continue
-- which you do not.
Select another paragraph (leaving the PM separating paragraphs unselected)
and repeat.
Wish it was simpler and slicker, but that's all there is.
Yours Truly
OXCG
(One of the XMCA Computer Geeks.)
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On Thursday 24 October 2002 04:13 pm, Steve Gabosch wrote:
> I appreciate Ricardo starting up this thread. I'm just learning how to
get
> around in Acrobat myself. When I cut and paste a passage or a page from
> Acrobat to a word processor (I use Word), is there a way to eliminate the
> paragraph markers I get at the end of each line of text - while at the
same
> time keeping the markers at the end of paragraphs where they belong?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Gabosch
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