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Instead of having textpad wrap a line so that it is several shorter lines, is there a way to make it permanent, so that if I open it in notepad, word, openoffice, etc the text wrapping will be the same?

Is there any way to open .doc files in textpad, or to convert all the gibberish generated by word's formatting to regular text or removing it altogether? I can't use openoffice because I'm on a pretty old computer and OO kills its memory.

yeah reformat ended up working a little bit better. thanks.

well i sort of got it working, though its certainly not pretty.
replace \n with bloomph
replace bloomphbloomph with \n
replace bloomph with <space>

i need help removing any single linebreaks while leaving all double breaks alone. say i have a line like this:

annie had\n
a bump on\n
her head\n
\n

and want it to look something like this:

annie had a bump on her head\n

its not just the word noun, but they are all followed by a colon. i just tried the second example you posted and it worked like a charm. thanks ben, and thanks for the explanation. it made things a lot clearer.

ive got several lines that all start with the same word, for example: Noun: stratum (strata) 1. One of several parallel... Noun: culvert 1. A transverse and totally... etc. what i want to do is move the first word(noun in this case) to the end of the first line, placing it behind "(strata)" in the ...

I ended up finding a program that would solve this problem for me, but a new problem arose (isn't that how it always happens?) The files are saved as html, but I need to remove it while preserving the paragraph and line breaks(replace <p> with double \n, br with single \n, the problem is that some ...

I have about 1200 files I'm working with, and I want to remove all text that comes before a certain string I know I could use \n if I knew how many lines I was going to replace, but some of the files have only 1 line before it, some have up to 30. I want to remove everything that precedes it ...

Type 0C into the find field and select hex.

How do I find a page break? For example to find a tab I just do a find for \t. What is the symbols for finding the page break.

Much Thanks,

Greg

there are certain regular expressions that match zero width , like a pipe '|' at the beginning/end of a statement, or two with nothing between. if an expression like this is used in the replace dialog, and the replace all function is used, textpad freezes in a busy loop (because the expression ...

Hi,

It would be handy to be able to do a find/seach and be able to limit the search to only the currently open documents in textpad. If that then returned the results in the Find In Files results it would make navigating around documents pretty easy.

Great product guys!

Oz