"Fixing" a page with Styles

JulieJinky via OfficeKB.c · External Since: Sep 24, 2009 Posts: 2

Hi...

Hope I'm in the right place...

I have written a large macro that takes a 20 page Word document (software
generated), gets rid of the information that is not needed and pares it down
to a one or two page document.

Problem is with all the changes made to the document what's left is not
pretty. The document consists of tables and single line paragraphs and
between each various amounts of empty space (lines).

I asked the macro experts if they could help... but to a person, they all
suggested applying Styles.

SO.... how could I create and apply a style to space everything on the page
evenly (i.e. one space ONLY between ALL objects (paragraphs and tables) on
the page)?

I am completely new to this concept... so be patient....

Thanking you in advance...

J

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Graham Mayor · External Since: Jul 04, 2006 Posts: 4676

If your original document contained multiple lines and you have been
removing text from the lines instead of removing the lines themselves then
yes you will have a lot of empty paragraphs. You can use replace to remove
empty paragraphs eg replace
^13{1,}
with
^p
with the wildcard option set

Styles will not affect empty paragraphs, but they can now be used to format
the text in thge layout you require.

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JulieJinky via OfficeKB.com wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Hope I'm in the right place...
>
> I have written a large macro that takes a 20 page Word document
> (software generated), gets rid of the information that is not needed
> and pares it down to a one or two page document.
>
> Problem is with all the changes made to the document what's left is
> not pretty. The document consists of tables and single line
> paragraphs and between each various amounts of empty space (lines).
>
> I asked the macro experts if they could help... but to a person,
> they all suggested applying Styles.
>
> SO.... how could I create and apply a style to space everything on
> the page evenly (i.e. one space ONLY between ALL objects (paragraphs
> and tables) on the page)?
>
> I am completely new to this concept... so be patient....
>
> Thanking you in advance...
>
> J

JulieJinky via OfficeKB.c · External Since: Sep 24, 2009 Posts: 2

Mr. Mayor...

Thanks for this information... I will use it to learn more about
styles/wildcards going forward (as suggested by the macro gurus...)

Mentioning the macro gurus... One got back to me with some code that worked
(after some tweaking)... If you're interested, I can post it...

Thanks again for your help...

Julie

Graham Mayor wrote:
If your original document contained multiple lines and you have been
removing text from the lines instead of removing the lines themselves then
yes you will have a lot of empty paragraphs. You can use replace to remove
empty paragraphs eg replace
^13{1,}
with
^p
with the wildcard option set

Styles will not affect empty paragraphs, but they can now be used to format
the text in thge layout you require.

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