Stupid pasting!

[jofish22]

Does anybody know how I can paste something from Acrobat into Word without it taking every new line as a hard CR? IE, I want to paste this from an Acrobat document

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[dr_tectonic]

Try one of the "paste special" options? That's my best guess.

I suspect the problem is that there actually are hard returns in the source selection, so you're going to have to strip them out somehow. If you don't like the TextPad solution, you could always paste it into the Word doc, select it, and do a search-and-repace for hard returns...

[bats22]

I think the way I have solved this in the past is:

Edit -> Replace

Hit "More" button

Find What: Special -> Paragraph Mark

Replace With: Space (or nothing, depending on how it is formatted)

Alternately, I sometimes drop it into Eudora, and do Message Plug Ins-> Unwrap Text

Hope this helps.

[bats22]

Also, if you need to do this for multiple paragraphs:

Find What: Special -> Paragraph MarkParagraph Mark (will show up ^p^p)

Replace With: AAAA (or some other string that would not exist in the document).

Then:

Find What: Special -> Paragraph Mark

Replace With: Space (or nothing, depending on how it is formatted)

And then:

Find What: AAAA

Replace With: ^p^p

What sucks really hard is if you have an Acrobat document with columns, and copy-paste grabs multiple columns.

[ocschwar]

Emacs for Windows sucks very little.

[thatwesguy]

Yeah, I routinely fire up emacs and do M-x replace-string for this kind of crap. It's incredible.

I have heard that TextWrangler for Mac is good for this sort of thing as well.

Bottom line: no one seems to use Just Plain Text anymore, and I think that that's a tactical error on the world's part.

Psyched to hear about these solutions. I'm probably going to try all of them at some point just because this is one of those annoying things that a really clean process for would save me a lot of workaround time in aggregate.

[dr_tectonic]

Emacs is just indispensible. There are tasks that become simply impossible without tools like M-x replace-regexp and string-rectangle...

copy from Pdf

[anonymous]

Dude, buy this software, or download a copy, and you can convert pdf into word, excel or any other Office based software. I use it all the time:

Then you can copy the text from word and use it as you please.

http://www.investintech.com/able2extract.html