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Manual line break in Microsoft Word: identifying number followed by a dot

I've the following sample of text. Is it possible to use the function find and replace in Microsoft Word in order to replace all the numbers followed by a dot with a double line break (^l^l)? 1. Il ...
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Microsoft Excel - False automatic line break

I have problem using the automatic line break feature and the automatic line height feature of Microsoft Excel. As you can see in the picture below I put a simple text ("Just a testtext which ...
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SQL Server Results to File Creates extra lines at end

When I route the output of my queries to a file, there are one or two blank lines at the bottom. When I run the query though SSMS (2008 or 2012), I get two extra blank lines. When I run the query ...
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How to tell word to not line break across a region of text?

I have a Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 document that includes some numbers with exponents and I don't want line breaks in the middle of the figures. For example: 100 lb×in-2 Sometimes gets rendered ...
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How to Break lines of the displayed file names under extra large icons' miniatures at specified points in Windows Explorer?

How to Break lines of the displayed file names under extra large icons' miniatures at specified points in Windows Explorer? I want to optimize this file name display mode for the Extra large icons ...
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Does dropbox change linebreaks in files?

when i save a file to my Dropbox at home on my PC is seems to have '\n' line breaks, but when i open the file on my Mac at work the line breaks have mutated to '\r\n' windows line breaks. could ...
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Notepad++ split line after given number of characters

Is there a way in notepad++, to split one line text, to text with given maximum number of characters in one line? I found only undefined line split in lines operations.
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Section break interrupts multilevel heading list & messes headings collapsing behavior

Trying to achieve: I am trying to include all selected headings in image3 as subheadings of the "5.3. Technical flow" heading - basically the numbering should change and the collapsing ...
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First page of new section does not include page number

First page of new section does not include page number (the new section has two-column layout format). Any idea why and how to solve this? I could hardcode the page number, but I am afraid of messing ...
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Whats going on in my kali linux? E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. Im a Newbie

I was installing this package when this happened. root@kali:~/airgeddon# apt install isc-dhcp-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ...
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Word: how to prevent line break in fields? No VBA

I am preparing a Word document with fields that may be located anywhere and may contain spaces and dashes. So, a field may be line broken when located at the end of a line. I need to get rid of this....
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Ffmpeg line break with right side alignment

i use this ffmpeg command to render a video from images - the problem is when i use carriage /n i can’t make right side alignment for Arabic text, i can’t use multiple drawtext for this because text ...
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Inject a page break before numbered list in MS word

I have a document with 70+ questions in it. Most of the questions were numbered using MS Word's numbered list. I need to inject a page break before each of these questions so that they are on their ...
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(git) Bash: how exactly does a line break differ from \n in a variable?

My apologies, I must have made some mistakes when performing the initial tests, as after putting everything into a single script the xxd output does indeed always match the stdouput. The entire script ...
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Thunderbird 78: Line breaks are not applied correctly in plain text emails

I have updated Thunderbird to version 78.4 and since then I have a problem to display plain text emails correctly. I write my e-mails as plain text. Line breaks are created automatically starting at ...
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How can I create a new line break at the first letter following a dash?

I’ve been using this wonderful site for years, but after hours of searching in it, I cannot figure out how to do the following in Notepad++. So I opened an account to respectfully make the following ...
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Weird line space in Word due to end-of-row symbol

I am trying to write a paragraph in MS word, but, due to some reason, there is a weird blank line which appears on every page, and it seems to cut a paragraph into two, even though I mean it to be one ...
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Variable-width non-breaking space in Word 2016 (including a possible solution)

I'm using Word 2016 to write articles that must keep certain words on the same line. Therefore, I work with a lot of non-breaking spaces. The articles eventually go to print (or PDF), meaning there ...
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Line break breaks scientific notation

My text contains a numerical value with scientific notation ("7∙10-5 mm Hg at 25 °C", with "-5" in superscript). Word insists on a line break between "-" and "5"...
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Prepending Text To Every Line Within Capture Group

What I have: X ( 1 2 3 ) BREAK Y ( 4 5 ) BREAK Z ( 6 7 8 9 ) BREAK What I'd like: X,1 X,2 X,3 Y,4 Y,5 Z,6 Z,7 Z,8 Z,9 I'd prefer to figure out how to do this using RegEx in Notepad++. As I ...
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Why does Word want to convert my rtf-file and if I do convert, it doesn't format my text

I have the following rtf-file {\rtf1\ansi\deff0 {\fonttbl {\f0 Courier;}} test } When I try to open it in Word, I get prompted to convert it. If I do so, it opens the file and displays the content ...
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Why files have opposite line terminators on different PCs?

I tried asking about this on stackoverflow but was kind of pointed here. Here's what's going on: We generate a file, which contains CRLF line breaks (I'm using Ubuntu 18.04). It's an .scv file, ...
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Notepad ignoring linebreaks [duplicate]

Most documents I'm opening in notepad.exe under windows 7 lately, there are no linebreaks... everything just runs together. The same documents in any other program, even previewed directly in ...
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How to Remove Paragraph Breaks in openoffice

I am using openoffice 4 and i have a Paragraph Breaks between two pages and i want to avoid it
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Why do Excel line breaks not transfer into Notepad?

When copying a cell with line breaks in Excel and pasting it into Notepad, the text is pasted onto one line. Why is that?
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Can I cause MS Word to insert symbols for automatic line breaks?

I want to include an XML schema in a technical document created in MS Word. It has lines which are much longer than the available width on the page, so Word automatically breaks the lines. I want to ...
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Regex delete linebreak

I have a file in which I want to remove only certain line breaks, such as this example: ProduceFalse: Return a Boolean of value "false" ProduceTrue: Return a Boolean of value "true" In the above ...
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How to prevent Outlook 2016 from adding line breaks in long URLs?

It seems Outlook 2016 adds line breaks in plain text messages. How can I prevent this? This is how it looks in Outlook 2016 with and without [x] in [x] Remove extra line breaks in plain text ...
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Plotting rolling 12 month average and quarterly average

I have the below graph that shows monthly availability, quarterly average of the availability and 12 month rolling average. Here, I dont want to quarterly average line graph to be continuous. I would ...
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Remove break lines in wrapped cells

I want to get rid of unnecessary break lines from cells and leave the ones I need to separate wrapped text. I'm outta ideas how to distinct them from each other and remove some of them which are ...
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How to remove soft line break in the field that from styleRef in Word 2013?

I create a header in WORD 2013 that contain a field from my chapter style ref. The problem is chapter title has a soft line break, I want to remove it in header, how to do it?
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How do I remove linebreaks in Notepad++?

Is there a simple way of removing linebreaks in Notepad++? For example: This text has been splitted in lines, and it's longer than 3200 words, so it would be great to find and replace line breaks ...
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Disable automatic line break in LibreOffice Writer

In LibreOffice Writer, in a table cell, there is the text "abcdef/+ghijklm". The cell is not wide enough to contain the whole text, so there is an automatic line break after the "/" even though "...
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Removing all manual word / line breaks in Microsoft Word

I have auto word break option enabled in my Word 2010 so most of the words breaks correctly on the end of lines. When I'm not satisfied with the results, I can always press Ctrl + - to force that ...
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How to remove line breaks (or carriage returns) only from certain parts of a block of text?

Whenever I copy formatted text from a PDF file which is formatted to have line breaks (or carriage returns), I need to find a way to remove these line breaks without removing the paragraph format. To ...
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Why are Windows line breaks larger than Unix line breaks? [duplicate]

So I created two files, each with 127,955 lines and 24 random characters per line. As far as text the two files were completely identical. However one file had Unix line breaks and the other had ...
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Why redirection operators from windows prompt create text ignoring line break? [duplicate]

I tried to output to a text file using redirection operators > and >> from a java class but it ignores line feed \n from java when the .txt file is opened with the Notepad from windows 10. It'...
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Remove section break in Word without merging formatting with previous section

I'm having a heck of a time deleting section breaks after rotating page orientation in the same document: NOTE: When you delete a section break, the text that was above the break becomes part of ...
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How to remove linebreaks in Notepad++? in long text

I would like to know if is a method to remove linebreaks in Notepad++ aside from select and cntrl + J that is already explain here How to remove linebreaks in Notepad++? the Problem is ...
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How to find all "windows-line-break"-ed files?

Im on Windows which made Windows-style line breaks. Now it all should go to a production environment. With total commander, or anyhow, how to find files ended with Windows line break?
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How to stop Word 2007 from inserting a line break at hyphens, without using a nonbreaking hyphen

I have a long URL that contains some hyphens, and would like to include it in a Word document. Unfortunately Word sees the hyphens and creates a rather ugly line-breaking scheme. If I replace the ...
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NodeJS: writing JSON file not having line breaks when i open in Notepad. But is pretty view with other Editors

I am writing a JSON file using NodeJS, like this: var path = "D:\\test.json" var writeContent = {"Success" : "This is a sample"} fs.writeFile(path, JSON.stringify(writeContent, null, 4), function (...
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Adding linebreaks in notepad++

Is it possible to turn this: 1 My old house 2 My new house 3 My blue house 4 My funhouse into: 1 My old house 2 My new house 3 My blue house 4 My funhouse using Notepad++?
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How does libreoffice express a linebreak when saving a csv?

I’m attempting to save a CSV using LibreOffice Calc to be imported to a MySQL database. Saving it as a CSV is pretty straightforward in LibreOffice but I don’t know how the resulting document ...
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Is there a way to remove the superfluous line breaks in an Open Office document?

I copied a large text file into an Open Office Document, and it added or "preserved" a lot of superfluous line breaks. Here's an example of what I see: When it should look like this: Es, pues, de ...
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How do I make komodo edit open stuff with mac line breaks?

I'm on my Windows 7 PC using Komodo Edit text editor (version 6.1). I have a file from my Mac which I need to use, but it either doesn't open or opens as a blank doc. The file isn't broken or ...
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Notepad - replaces returns with line breaks when stripping format from text

I've used Notepad for years to strip out formatting from Word or web pages when using that text in html. Recently, the default behaviour (using returns between paragraphs) has changed, and now Notepad ...
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How to remove unwanted line breaks without affecting the rest of the formatting?

Sample text: I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,--Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and ...
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Emacs org-mode: how to disable visual line wrap for Agenda buffers only?

I've activated visual line mode in Emacs with M-x global-visual-line-mode . However (only) in Agenda buffers I'd like to autamatically use truncate long lines instead. How can I enable that? Do I ...
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How to find double linebreaks in Notepad++?

Take for example the following: This text file has many double linebreaks, What is the expression too find these?