Hi William,

Yes, as you say that's a problem that has been around a while.
The issues with the non-working ¶ para marks should go away once you save
the file in a native Word format (doc, rtf, docx...).

Or, if that's not a good option, replace ^13 with ^p, and maybe ^10 with ^p
to be on the safe side. I do that routinely at the beginning of macros that
process text files or other non-word files.

Regards,
Klaus




"WilliamWMeyer" wrote:
Hi folks,

I often am dealing with Word files I didn't create. That is, a human being
other than myself created them (perhaps on Macs), or Save As/Export
filters created them. For example, Saving As .doc/.rtf out of Adobe
Acrobat, or OCR scanning software that saves as .doc/rtf.

Because of this I often run into fake returns, which I can manipulate to
some degree, in Find & Replace with ^p and ^13.

However, if I select a group of these paragraphs and apply a Style to
them, their fakeness is revealed and the block of paragraphs is treated as
if it were one paragraph.

I used to see and solve a problem like this, in which a para mark had a
^10 before or after it, but I haven't seen those ^10s since a couple Word
or operating system versions ago.

Any ideas?
WilliamW