Word should be able to automatically combine text in a paragraph

[George]

I have the following paragraph I copied from an email. It has text on
several lines, and I would like to be able to combine all of this onto as few
lines as possible to save space before I print it.

I would like to change margins to, maybe 0.75 or 1 inch top/bottom and
left/right. Again this would save space and ink.

I have sent messages to the discussion groups before. Someone gave me a
really complicated list of instructions, like showing the paragraph view with
all of those itty bitty markings and rearranging all of the text in several
steps. Doable I guess, but I couldn't figure it out. You should have a
quick tool that can do all of that for me.

Thank you.

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[Jay Freedman]

I have the following paragraph I copied from an email. It has text on
several lines, and I would like to be able to combine all of this onto as few
lines as possible to save space before I print it.

I would like to change margins to, maybe 0.75 or 1 inch top/bottom and
left/right. Again this would save space and ink.

I have sent messages to the discussion groups before. Someone gave me a
really complicated list of instructions, like showing the paragraph view with
all of those itty bitty markings and rearranging all of the text in several
steps. Doable I guess, but I couldn't figure it out. You should have a
quick tool that can do all of that for me.

Thank you.

If everything is just right (I think the phase of the moon has
something to do with it), the menu item Format > AutoFormat will do
what you want.

The problem is that many web pages don't do everything right, and Word
can't compensate for every weird thing you might copy. That's when you
get into the complicated instructions.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Here is another option:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm