Formatting text in Microsoft Word Starter 2010

willietherock · 2014-07-25 16:17:03

I've cut and pasted a wall of text from the web onto a Word document and it's in the following format xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx.... Basically short sentences .One after another. Is there a shortcut to join all the text together into one wall of text that I can format late. At the…

25-07-2014 04:17PM

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willietherock

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I've cut and pasted a wall of text from the web onto a Word document and it's in the following format

xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxx
xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx....

Basically short sentences .One after another. Is there a shortcut to join all the text together into one wall of text that I can format late. At the moment I have to click the curser to the start of each line and click backspace to join every thing up which is taking an eternity.

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#2 25-07-2014 04:53PM

ajc100

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Try paste into notepad first, that should strip-out any formatting, then copy and paste into word.

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