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Thread ID: 11109	2001-09-01 07:15:00	TXT file margins	Guest (0)	Press F1

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17950	2001-09-01 07:15:00	On my Brother typewriter I can convert .wpt files to ASCI.txt files so I can view documents on my PC. On the PC I then copy the text from Notepad & paste into MSWord which is no problem. However somehow the margins are set in Notepad. Even though I can do a paste special into Word or try & change the margins in Notepad, the margins cannot be altered. I have extended the original margins in the document on the typewriter but again to no effect. I then have to go through line by line in Word & backspace sentences to fill the margins. With pages of text this is tedious and was wondering if anyone had any ideas how to get around this, Thanks.	Guest (0)
17951	2001-09-01 07:42:00	Have you tried opening the files directly in Word, skipping the notepad step?	Guest (0)
17952	2001-09-01 08:06:00	Yes, opening the .txt file in Word has the same results. I tried doing a paste special to see if that would help but unfortunately the margins seem to be fixed somehow.	Guest (0)
17953	2001-09-01 08:43:00	Is it using tabs or spaces for the margin? It is just a plain text file so it contains no actual formatting. You could try using a text editor like UltraEdit which is designed to do editiing of text like this. Or if the file is using spaces to set the indentation then you could do a find and replace by searching for example eight spaces, ' ' and setting replace to be nothing.	Guest (0)
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