Is there a button in msword that can regroup all text?

dvdbunny · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:29

Hey Guys

I got a bunch of text on 20 pages, the text is in the right order from left to right down the page, but it's all over the place. Is there a button that will just bring all the test together. You see this text should fit in far less pages than 20 if it was all together. Right now I am doing it manually and it's taking ages is there a button or option that does it automatically. I still want the text to continue as it's a story.

Many thanks in advance

Kristoph · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:32

You mean the alignment is out? As if it was being printed for a newspaper?

G-MAN2004 · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:37

Due to the overwhelming response to your first novel, you've started to write another? Congrats, and good luck.

dvdbunny · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:38

not exactly the alignment

you see I have taken a movie script and I have removed all of the text apart from the dialogue and now I got all these dialogue text all over the place on 20 pages and I want all the dialogue next to each other in the order of a story on the least amount pages. How would that be possible to do?

colinuk · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:39

Slightly drunk here, but here goes...

Maybe save the word file then import to excel as a CSV file and see if that can help??

ok,,,, more than slighty drunk lol..

titchard · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:41

Maybe post us a bit of your story - then we can help you.

Rich

Azagoth · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:41

colinuk · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:47

ok - quick check in word 'god help us' 2007, you must save the doc as a TXT file, plain text if poss....

ooo my head lol...

then in excel open the file as a CSV file... that, if i understand your OP, shich is unlikey at the mo, should help you.... ish...

Let me know in the morning lol..

Colin

Le_Petit_Lapin · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:48

Excel? What the hell good is it imported into Excel?

unclebob123 · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:49

If your writing a script, then perhaps you might want to try celtx.

http://celtx.com/

colinuk · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:58

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Excel? What the hell good is it imported into Excel?

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import as CSV and each word has its own box then you can move them around the screen on mass..... works for lots of things, try it, it may amaze you

Le_Petit_Lapin · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:01

DVDbunny you should just be able to highlight all the text, and then when you move the page margin sliders everything will drop into line.

If its instead filled with a bunch of "SPACE"'s all you need to do is copy and paste the gaps into "Find and Replace" stick the right ammount of spaces in the "find" box and leave the "replace" box empty. It'll take them all out.

Or if you host it somewhere, I'll do it. Its a 2 minute job.

colinuk said:
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import as CSV and each word has its own box then you can move them around the screen on mass..... works for lots of things, try it, it may amaze you

Using a spreadsheet to fix a document just doesn't sit right with me. Does doing your method preserve headers, footers, section breaks and page breaks, as well as formatting?

colinuk · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:20

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Using a spreadsheet to fix a document just doesn't sit right with me. Does doing your method preserve headers, footers, section breaks and page breaks, as well as formatting?

wouldnt think so, but it would put all the text together for him..

Happy · 20 Dec 2008 at 22:18

Azagoth said:

Thank you, that is awesome

neil3k · 20 Dec 2008 at 22:45

Writing another book?

dvdbunny · 21 Dec 2008 at 04:10

many thanks for the replies

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
DVDbunny you should just be able to highlight all the text, and then when you move the page margin sliders everything will drop into line.

If its instead filled with a bunch of "SPACE"'s all you need to do is copy and paste the gaps into "Find and Replace" stick the right ammount of spaces in the "find" box and leave the "replace" box empty. It'll take them all out.

Or if you host it somewhere, I'll do it. Its a 2 minute job.

Using a spreadsheet to fix a document just doesn't sit right with me. Does doing your method preserve headers, footers, section breaks and page breaks, as well as formatting?

I cannot find where is find and replace, which option do you choose when you got to EDIT - FIND?

Many thanks in advance

Nanobot · 21 Dec 2008 at 22:37

Depends on what version of Word you are using. There is usually an option to remove extra spaces but I'm not sure if its just a 2007 version option.

OCdude · 21 Dec 2008 at 23:05

This thread made me lol

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