> THE TAX CONSULTANTS, INC. ?
> 300 LACKAWANNA AVE
> WEST PATERSON, NJ 07424?

> Note that there is no ? character after the second line, but
> there"should" be.  Is it possible to search through a file of
> hundreds of addresses formatted in this fashion, and locate and
> correct any lines that wrap without the ? character?

> --
> Charlie Hoffpauir
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
> If you really want to reply via email, my valid
> address is available on my web site.

>While there isn't a pilcrow (i.e., ?) character, I'm guessing that there is
>something that causes the line to break, such as a soft return (ALT + 011).
>The only other way (that I can think of) to control the wrapping is to
>adjust the line width, which I don't think is causing the break (in your
>example, then, the first line would also wrap). If you find that it is
>indeed a soft return, then you can use the find and replace command to
>replace all occurrences (FindWhat:="^l", ReplaceWith:="^p").

>FYI and FWIW, the pilcrow character in your text is actually ALT + 013 (it
>causes the line to break whereas ALT + 0182 inserts the symbol like a letter
>and does not cause the line to break).

>HTH

>> I have text in a file that looks like this: (Where the  ? character is
>> Alt + 0182, which normally displays the end of a line and shows as ?)

>> THE TAX CONSULTANTS, INC. ?
>> 300 LACKAWANNA AVE
>> WEST PATERSON, NJ 07424?

>> Note that there is no ? character after the second line, but
>> there"should" be.  Is it possible to search through a file of
>> hundreds of addresses formatted in this fashion, and locate and
>> correct any lines that wrap without the ? character?

>> --
>> Charlie Hoffpauir
>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
>> If you really want to reply via email, my valid
>> address is available on my web site.

> Thanks for the suggestions, but that apparent;ly isn't it. I did a
> search on ^| and find none.

> I'm guessing that in the OCR of the PDF file, somehow the margin for
> these particular lines is being reset to what is now the last
> character on the line. BTW, all these lines seem to end in a space.
> What happens is that if I reset the formatting, the line wraps to one
> line, so that the address becomes:

> 300 LACKAWANNA AVE  WEST PATERSON, NJ 07424?

> which isn't too bad, but looks bad.

> I can look at the individual lines in Word and the margin setting are
> certainly different for the lines that contain the pilcrow (generally
> right margin =0) and those that show the problem (generally right
> margin about 6").

> If you're interested in what the file looks like after OCR, take a
> look at the image I posted here, with tabs and pilcrows displayed.

> http://web.wt.net/~charlieh/pictures/sample.gif

> This is the first of 222 similar pages in the file.

> So what I seem to need to do, is to look for lines that have the large
> right margin, and check them for a pilcrow at the end of the line, and
> if they don't contain one, add one. Does that seem right?
> I'll look at more of the file to see if all the problem lines have the
> same right margin.... hoping they do, how do I search for lines that
> have that margin setting?

> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:12:56 -0500, "Dave Lett"

> >Hi Charlie,

> >While there isn't a pilcrow (i.e., ?) character, I'm guessing that there
is
> >something that causes the line to break, such as a soft return (ALT +
011).
> >The only other way (that I can think of) to control the wrapping is to
> >adjust the line width, which I don't think is causing the break (in your
> >example, then, the first line would also wrap). If you find that it is
> >indeed a soft return, then you can use the find and replace command to
> >replace all occurrences (FindWhat:="^l", ReplaceWith:="^p").

> >FYI and FWIW, the pilcrow character in your text is actually ALT + 013
(it
> >causes the line to break whereas ALT + 0182 inserts the symbol like a
letter
> >and does not cause the line to break).

> >HTH

> >> I have text in a file that looks like this: (Where the  ? character is
> >> Alt + 0182, which normally displays the end of a line and shows as ?)

> >> THE TAX CONSULTANTS, INC. ?
> >> 300 LACKAWANNA AVE
> >> WEST PATERSON, NJ 07424?

> >> Note that there is no ? character after the second line, but
> >> there"should" be.  Is it possible to search through a file of
> >> hundreds of addresses formatted in this fashion, and locate and
> >> correct any lines that wrap without the ? character?

> >> --
> >> Charlie Hoffpauir
> >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
> >> If you really want to reply via email, my valid
> >> address is available on my web site.

> --
> Charlie Hoffpauir
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
> If you really want to reply via email, my valid
> address is available on my web site.

>Here's a macro that inserts a paragraph (i.e., pilcrow) after each line in a
>document that doesn't have one. If you want all of your lines to have
>paragraphs, then this might be the easiest way to go about it (run this
>without resetting the right indent).

>Dim iPara As Integer
>Dim iLine As Integer

>With ActiveDocument
>    For iPara = .Paragraphs.Count To 1 Step -1
>        With .Paragraphs(iPara).Range
>            .Select
>            For iLine = 1 To .ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticLines) - 1
>                With Selection
>                    .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
>                    .Bookmarks("\Line").Range.InsertAfter vbCrLf
>                    .MoveDown unit:=wdLine, Count:=1, Extend:=wdMove
>                End With
>            Next iLine
>        End With
>    Next iPara
>End With

>HTH