Removing word wrapping: Best approach? (For ereaders)

I use an ereader a lot but formatting documents for it is often a challenge.  I have some reference documents, not available in typical ereader format, that I need to convert manually.  The originals were mobi and pdf.  So I just copied the text into a word processing program and am now trying to eliminate all the word wrapping breaks.  Otherwise, on the ereader, lines are segmented.  To do this manually will take an eternity.  So are there programs that do this?  Is there a term for this?  Sort of batch type formatting conversion of a document.  I think I may have just copied the text into Notepad with Word Wrap off and that seemed to work OK but then I lost some of the formatting (like italics).  


If you use an ereader you quickly realize that you want a fresh slate so to speak so you can choose font type, text weight/sharpness/etc, zero margins to use the maximum amount of screen space (always lacking in an ereader!) and a few other things.  The point is you want your document to be controllable as much as possible.  So you don't want any formatting from the past interfering with what you want to do.  Things like italics are important to preserve for most people but, at least for me, that's about it.  Otherwise its just the words that matter.  

---------------UPDATED MAY 5--------------------

I should mention that when I use the Show/Hide function (Control_Shift_8) and there are no symbols or icons denoting a line wrap at the end of each line, if that's what its called.  Just a dot signifying a space.  I have Word Wrap off in both Word 2003 and Notepad so why doesn't it just fill the entire line?  I did this once before and it worked but I can't recall what I did differently.  I've tried the suggestions on this page (not the macros though) and I think they require something to be replaced and there isn't anything here.  

I just noticed that even when I have the Ruler going the maximum width (half the page), it won't let the words extend beyond half the page. How do I remove the Ruler function or just stop this from happening?


See http://WordFAQs.mvps.org/CleanWebText.htm for help removing the line breaks.
Microsoft MVP (Word) since 1999
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://ssbarnhill.com
http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com
Screen shots captured with TechSmith's Snagit

Was this reply helpful?

Sorry this didn't help.

Great! Thanks for your feedback.

How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback.

For a set of Find/Replace actions that will clean up pasted text, plus a macro to automate the process, see: http://www.msofficeforums.com/word/8039-how-combine-many-paragraphs-one-paragraph.html#post19751
Cheers
Paul Edstein
(Fmr MS MVP - Word)

Was this reply helpful?

Sorry this didn't help.

Great! Thanks for your feedback.

How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback.

Greg Maxey also has a macro (actually an add-in) at http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/cleanup_text.html.
Microsoft MVP (Word) since 1999
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://ssbarnhill.com
http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com
Screen shots captured with TechSmith's Snagit

Was this reply helpful?

Sorry this didn't help.

Great! Thanks for your feedback.

How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback.

 
 

Question Info


Last updated October 5, 2021 Views 137 Applies to: