False paragraph mark

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maudie

When I save a text file as a Word 2002 document, then reopen the document I find that there are new blank lines introduced between paragraphs. This is caused by the addition of a false paragraph mark. That is, when viewed in "show formatting" it appears to have an extra paragraph mark, but it isn't a mark recognized by ^p. ^13 does recognize it, but if I forget to go in and fix these errors it often results in lost data (I often work between Word, Excel, and Access, and cut and paste between these). It's a real problem, and I'm wondering if there is a patch anywhere to fix this

Maudie.
 
K

Klaus Linke

Hi Maudie,

The text files can contain CarriageReturns ^13, LineFeeds ^10, or lots of
combinations of the two.
It's an old bug that Word won't always correctly change these to paragraph
marks.

In older versions, you had two choices to fix them:
-- Save in *.doc format,
-- Replace all ^13 with ^p, and, if present, all ^10 with ^p.

The fist method seemed simpler, and worked reliably up to Word2000.

It sounds as if not only the bug hasn't been fixed, but the first
work-around has been broken, too.

I'll experiment a bit with Word2002 and 2003, but there's probably no other
solution than replacing ^13 (and possibly ^10 if necessary).
In case that this wasn't broken, too, that is...

If you like and it's not confidential, please send a text file that causes
the problem to my private mail-address.
And tell me in case you used a certain text import filter (say, for MS-DOS
text).
I'll check if I can reproduce the problem.

Regards,
Klaus
 
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