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On 8/23/2019 at 9:51 AM, Dai777 said:

@MikeW I looked at the file in a text editor and libre office last night and saw what you saw and this does seem to present a problem for Publisher.
not sure what to do about it or where to get a better text file. It would seem that this would also be a problem getting files from others such as clients/community groups etc. If like me you're a sloppy  typer then any text file or word file will be riddled with misplaced paragraph marks. I'm certainly guilty of it.

Not sure how to go about the following but will give it a go.

The approximate general approach, then, using Find/Replace in Publisher would be this:

  1. Handle the title page separately. For the rest, perform all of the following
  2. Search for all ¶ followed by a space, and turn them into something unique, such as %%nowrap%%
  3. Search for all ¶¶¶¶Text, delete the ¶¶¶¶, and assign a Heading 2 paragraph style.
    (I am having a problem with this step, so it needs some kind of modification. When I try to assign a paragraph style only [No Style] is available.)
  4. Search for all ¶¶ and turn them into something unique, such as %%break%%
  5. Search for all ¶ and replace with a single space
  6. Search for all %%break%% and turn them into a ¶
  7. Search for all %%nowrap%% and turn them into a ¶

 

@walt.farrell

Gave this a go as part of my learning experience worked well but didn't know how to apply

5. Search for all ¶ and replace with a single space

 I used a line break instead of empty space but, formatting in styles screws up the page when applying it to some pages and paragraphs with line breaks. Any advice would be helpful.

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1 hour ago, Dai777 said:

Gave this a go as part of my learning experience worked well but didn't know how to apply

5. Search for all ¶ and replace with a single space

Unless I don't understand your problem, you just insert a Paragraph Break into the Find box, and type a single space into the Replace box.

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