mbpellie

Q: deleting paragraph marks

Hi

I just pasted some text into Pages 5.5.1 and the text ended up having a paragraph forced mark at the end of every line.  Does anyone know how to get rid of this??  the text originated in a PDF that came from scanning a typed manuscript that I want to be able to edit.  In Acrobat Pro, I selected the option to make it editable... and then I selected all, and copied, and then pasted into Pages.  My goal is to be able to take this manuscript of about 150 typed pages and edit it... so if there are other suggestions than the PDF in Acrobat, that's great too.  but in the meantime... how do I get rid of these paragraph marks!?   thanks much.  working on MBP 15 inch, mid 2012, with Yosemite.

 

 

 

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Posted on Nov 25, 2014 6:43 PM

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  • by Yellowbox,Solvedanswer

    Yellowbox Yellowbox Sep 12, 2016 11:18 AM in response to mbpellie
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    Sep 12, 2016 11:18 AM in response to mbpellie

    Hi mbpelliie,

     

    Select a paragraph symbol

    Screen Shot 2016-09-13 at 3.53.46 AM.png

     

    Menu > Edit > Find > Use Selection for Find

    Screen Shot 2016-09-13 at 4.01.41 AM.png

     

    Menu > Edit > Find > Find...

    Screen Shot 2016-09-13 at 4.05.56 AM.png

    to see this

    Screen Shot 2016-09-13 at 4.08.12 AM.png

    I typed <space>unicorn<space> into the Replace box.

    Click on Replace All

    Here we go, I have changed unicorn to red text.

    Screen Shot 2016-09-13 at 4.12.31 AM.png

     

    Happy Paging!

     

    Regards,

    Ian.

  • by mbpellie,

    mbpellie mbpellie Sep 12, 2016 2:21 PM in response to Drew Reece
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    Sep 12, 2016 2:21 PM in response to Drew Reece

    Thank you --

     

    you wrote:

    "Personally I think the image you just posted looks correct, the paragraph marks seem to be in the correct places - are you sure you didn't already find & replace those items?"

     

    I probably wasn't clear enough in my question...

    My issue isn't that the paragraph marks are in the right place.  It is that the paragraph marks in the document were inconsistent.  Therefore, instead of going thru 400 pages to delete some extra paragraph marks, I wanted to remove all of the paragraph marks and then use the style spacing (i.e. before and after paragraph) so that the spacing was consistent before and after all paragraphs, based on their assigned style.  (this is what I've been doing in my newer documents and it works well.)

     

    However... I did manage to select the paragraph symbol using your advice, and deleted them all. 

    BUT, when I deleted all of the forced paragraphs, all of my style settings disappeared!    So, my great idea doesn't seem to work anyway.

     

     

    FYI -- This is what one page looks like, with the styles and the paragraph marks:  As you can see, there are a bunch of paragraph marks at the bottom of the page that I don't want.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-09-12 at 1.44.06 PM.png

     

    again, it doesn't seem like my idea will work because I lose the styles when I delete all of the paragraph marks.

     

    I am not sure about the comment you made about Acrobat, since I've never used this document in Acrobat.

     

    Also, when I open in Preview, select all, copy and then paste in a new Pages document, only the paragraph symbols appear.

    Screen Shot 2016-09-12 at 1.43.38 PM.png

     

    Thank you again for your suggestions and time..... :-)

     

     

  • by mbpellie,

    mbpellie mbpellie Sep 12, 2016 2:24 PM in response to Yellowbox
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    Sep 12, 2016 2:24 PM in response to Yellowbox

    thanks Ian -- see my note I just posted.  I appreciated your very clear illustrations though!!

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Sep 12, 2016 4:11 PM in response to mbpellie
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    Sep 12, 2016 4:11 PM in response to mbpellie

    I don't know why pages removes your styling, franky I don't use it often enough to tell why. I would try TextEdit to see if it is just Pages making a mess with it's styling.

     

    As for the duplicate paragraph marks, you will need to find & replace multiple ones, e.g. find 3 repeating paragraph marks & replace with one - rinse & repeat until it is in better shape.

     

    I'm a little confused by your first post - you said you used Acrobat Pro to make it editable, copied & pasted from there to Pages, in your last post you said you didn't use Acrobat - only one of those can be correct ?

  • by mbpellie,

    mbpellie mbpellie Sep 12, 2016 4:37 PM in response to Drew Reece
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    Sep 12, 2016 4:37 PM in response to Drew Reece

    Sorry for confusion.  I had added a new request recently about a new problem in this thread, because it also related to that 2014 post about paragraph marks.  

     

    As I said, couldn't do a find and replace because of the styles, which I use often and know how to use.

     

    went through and deleted the paragraph marks that needed deleting and fixed all with the styles. 

     

    Thanks everyone!

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