Suzanne
Sat Oct 25 09:36:09 CDT 2003
Another thing that would affect sorting would be the presence of line breaks
instead of paragraph breaks. Do you have nonprinting characters displayed so
that you can distinguish?
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Kenny" <santa@northpole.org> wrote in message
news:OLrYUhvmDHA.1096@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for the replies but none of the suggestions worked. The utility I
> used previously in Word 97 is Fixmail from:
>
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_download/0,fid,6092,fileidx,1,00.asp
> but I can't get it to work in Word XP. I'm assuming th VB code needs
> altered but I don't know how. Anyone care for a challenge getting this to
> work in Word XP?
>
> --
>
> Kenny
>
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:uZ$3M8jmDHA.2592@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Scanned documents, as I understand it, often use a lot of frames, so
that
> > could be part of the problem. You can remove the frames with Ctrl+A,
> Ctrl+Q,
> > but this will remove all other direct paragraph formatting as well.
> >
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > Words into Type
> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> > Word MVP FAQ site:
http://www.mvps.org/word
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> >
> > "Kenny" <santa@northpole.org> wrote in message
> > news:ugF7aufmDHA.1244@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > Seems to split the document into columns and not sequential, hard to
> > > explain. This doc wasn't created in Word, it was scanned using Abby
> > > Finereader OCR program, the few errors corrected then converted to
Word
> > doc.
> > > I suspect the problem has something to do with that. Seem to remember
a
> > > similar problem some years ago with Win98 &Word 97 was solved by using
a
> > > utility which removed all formatting. I'm now using Office/Word XP,
> can't
> > > remember what that utility was and if there's something similar for
XP.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Kenny
> > >
> > >
> > > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
> > > news:ufw0e2OmDHA.1284@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > > Table | Sort is the way to go. Don't know why you're getting strange
> > > > results. Can you describe how they are "strange"?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > > > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > > > Words into Type
> > > > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> > > > Word MVP FAQ site:
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> > > > all may benefit.
> > > >
> > > > "Kenny" <santa@northpole.org> wrote in message
> > > > news:OxfdyDMmDHA.1764@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > > > Fairly large document, many paragraphs with a line break between
> each.
> > > > > Would like to sort by first letter of each paragraph. Only Sort
> > option
> > > I
> > > > > can find is in the Table menu. Odd thing is that this will sort
the
> > > > > paragraphs descending Z-A OK but trying to sort ascending A-Z get
> > > strange
> > > > > results. Any help appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > > Kenny
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