word: How to delete line breaks without punctuation in bulk
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As the title suggests, I copied a document from the internet and pasted it into Word; as a result, there were many line breaks. I want to quickly remove the line breaks that follow punctuation marks, but not those that follow punctuation-free text. How can I do this? Thank you
Look at a recent article on the official account. There is a good software for designing practical software packages. It can be done
Use Find and Replace: set the search pattern to two newline characters and replace them with one newline character, which reduces the amount of work by half. You can also paste the copied text into a TXT file first, and then copy it from the TXT file to Word. The TXT file will remove a lot of formatting, so you might want to give that a try as well
Thank you for the reminder. I found it through the official account and then went back to the forum to download it; it turns out there is a download address: http://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-1277095-1-1.html. It’s a very good and useful software, but after installation it indicated that there is a 30-day trial period – I’m not sure if it can be used after that period ends.
To search for it, click on Advanced. Place the cursor in the search bar, select Manual Line Feed, and then click “Replace All”.
This post was last edited by ylb913 on 2016-9-5 20:21. 1. Click on \"Find\", then click \"More\", followed by \"Special Format\"; select \"Manual Line Feed\". As a result, ^1 will appear in the search bar. Then click \"Replace\" and \"Replace All\". 2. Actually, this isn’t the end yet – the operations mentioned above may cause all the normal segments to disappear. You need to read carefully, either segment the text according to your own understanding or re-segment it based on the original text you copied (for reference). 3. I have done many similar tasks: copying and pasting the content of a book, comparing it thoroughly, and breaking it down into sections according to the original format. I have also done this many times with tables, and even with images (in most cases, images were copied and pasted again; if that didn’t work, I would copy them from the desktop and paste them in manually). 4. In Excel cells, pressing Enter requires the use of the “Alt+Enter” key combination to create a new line; this is essentially a \"manual line break\".
Thank you, it worked, but it’s not ^l, it’s ^p； But the downside is that it cannot identify the previous character on its own. What I’m thinking is that if the previous character is text, then it should be replaced; if it’s punctuation, then no replacement should take place. I’ll have to figure this out little by little.
I’m talking about the Enter key that replaces the vertical arrow, not the regular Enter key.
It seems I misunderstood the question.^pWhich one, in “More → Special Format”, is called a “paragraph mark”?