On 11/5/10, THDW wrote:

>Kino
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>Thanks for your prompt reply.
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>Neither string seems to give me what I want. Both strings select end of lines when there is a return.
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>What I need to know are the surplus returns -  returns (in the middle of a line) whose existence I am not aware of because they coincide with the side of the screen page.
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>Obviously I can locate some of them by changing the size of the font on the screen.
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>There is another option which I need to exclude - when there is a question mark followed by an apostrophe.
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>Therefore I need to identify all the new paragraphs that are not preceded by a full stop, by a full stop and an apostrophe or by a question mark and an apostrophe.

What would keep you from changing any alphabetic character, followed by a return, to FOUND1 followed by a space? If all paragraphs end with a non-alphabetic (whether period, question mark, or quote), this should eliminate all instances of line breaks in the middle of a paragraph.

You don't even need PowerFind Pro for this; plain old PowerFind will do.

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