Text Wrap?? WeeWilly 10/24/2008 11:47:00 PM I don't know if this is the proper title.. however, what I want to do is to copy text from a document that is narrow and paste it into a new word document and have the text move out to the edges of a standard page. In other words, when I paste the document into my new document, the lines are only about 4" wide. I'd like them to extend to the standard margins. How do I do this? Thanks, Bill

Re: Text Wrap?? "MaryL" <stancole1[ at ]yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER> 10/25/2008 12:16:21 AM "WeeWilly" <WeeWilly[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:877F9FCD-409F-4881-B50A-AC7536704030[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I don't know if this is the proper title.. however, what I want to do is to > copy text from a document that is narrow and paste it into a new word > document and have the text move out to the edges of a standard page. In > other words, when I paste the document into my new document, the lines are > only about 4" wide. I'd like them to extend to the standard margins. > > How do I do this? > > Thanks, Bill Try Paste Special (instead of Paste), assuming there were no hard returns at the end of the lines. I'm a new user myself, so someone else will have to explain how to search for and remove hard returns if that is the problem. MaryL

Re: Text Wrap?? WeeWilly 10/25/2008 1:30:00 AM Thanks for the reply. When I click on Special Paste.. there are a number of choices.. the one I tried didn't work out.. "MaryL" wrote: [Quoted Text] > > "WeeWilly" <WeeWilly[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:877F9FCD-409F-4881-B50A-AC7536704030[ at ]microsoft.com... > >I don't know if this is the proper title.. however, what I want to do is to > > copy text from a document that is narrow and paste it into a new word > > document and have the text move out to the edges of a standard page. In > > other words, when I paste the document into my new document, the lines are > > only about 4" wide. I'd like them to extend to the standard margins. > > > > How do I do this? > > > > Thanks, Bill > > Try Paste Special (instead of Paste), assuming there were no hard returns at > the end of the lines. I'm a new user myself, so someone else will have to > explain how to search for and remove hard returns if that is the problem. > > MaryL > >

Re: Text Wrap?? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 10/25/2008 1:50:18 AM See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "WeeWilly" <WeeWilly[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:877F9FCD-409F-4881-B50A-AC7536704030[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I don't know if this is the proper title.. however, what I want to do is to > copy text from a document that is narrow and paste it into a new word > document and have the text move out to the edges of a standard page. In > other words, when I paste the document into my new document, the lines are > only about 4" wide. I'd like them to extend to the standard margins. > > How do I do this? > > Thanks, Bill >

Re: Text Wrap?? Jay Freedman <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 10/25/2008 1:59:55 AM On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:47:00 -0700, WeeWilly <WeeWilly[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I don't know if this is the proper title.. however, what I want to do is to >copy text from a document that is narrow and paste it into a new word >document and have the text move out to the edges of a standard page. In >other words, when I paste the document into my new document, the lines are >only about 4" wide. I'd like them to extend to the standard margins. > >How do I do this? > >Thanks, Bill See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.