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Dori
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The reason the lines refuse to go all the way across the page is
because the computer is using paragraph marks to break up each line.
But those paragraph marks can be removed and replaced with spaces.
Here's how:
Practice this on a short one page text until you feel comfortable with
it.
1) While you're in Word and the text is already pasted on, click the
bar across the top that says "edit."
2) Click on "replace..."
3) A dialog box will show on your screen
4) Where it says "find and replace" put a paragraph mark. It will not
work if you hit your enter button, you have to click on one of the five
buttons along the right inside the dialog that says "more."
5) click on the button that says "special."
6) A list of characters will pop up, click on "paragraph mark."
7) You should see a ^p.
8) Put the cursor down to where it says "replace with" and use your
space bar to put a space there. Nothing will show, spaces are
invisible.
9) Click one of the five buttons along the inside right of the dialog
box that says "replace all."
10) When it's done, click "OK" and you're done!!
What you end up with is one long paragraph! If you add a couple more
steps, you can make the lines go all the way across the page while
still retaining separate paragraphs. You just do a couple more "find
and replace" steps, like the one above.
1) Replace each paragraph mark paragraph mark for a tab character
(using the same dialog box from the edit\replace option)
2) replace each remaining paragraph mark with a space.
3) replace each tab with a paragraph mark paragraph mark.
I like to go through the entire book first and do pre-mark poems to
retain their poetry formatting. This takes time, but if you don't do
it, any poems in the book will show up as a long sentence (which may be
okay with you). If you decide that you would like to keep poems
formatted as poems, just add two steps. The first step is a long,
tedious process, but I don't think there's any way around it (unless
you could teach a computer to recognize poetry by its form!)
1) manually set up each poem with a zzz at the end of each line (A
"zzz" is rarely used for anything else, so you won't accidentally
re-format anything else)
2) after I'm done with all the other replacements I want to do, I
replace each zzz for a paragraph mark.