When we copy a part of the content from the PDF document to Word, the PDF automatically adds word wrapping to the text, that is, a carriage return, so that the text from another line, so when pasting into word, Word will have a lot of line breaks, layout is troublesome, need to delete, One way we often use this is to delete line breaks in bulk with the replacement function.
" " Open this first:
" " to see whether a newline character is a soft return or a hard return line break from a PDF. There will be a lot of arrows pointing vertically down or down and then left.
where we call the vertical downward arrow The newline character of the soft return , corresponding to the arrow that we turn down again to the left is called line break for hard return characters .
Soft return: Press Shift+enter: It wraps, but does not change paragraph.
Hard return: Press ENTER
To replace the manual line break (Soft return) method:
Enter ^l in "Find what"
Edit-Replace, click Advanced, in the "Find what" point in the "special characters" in the "manual line Break", and then in "Replace with" enter the character you want, and finally click Replace All.
To replace a paragraph mark (hard return):
Enter ^p in "Find what"
Edit-Replace, click Advanced, in the "Find what" point in "special characters" in the "paragraph mark", and then in "Replace with" to enter the character you want, and finally click Replace All.
"" If the copied content is all hard returns. Then add some special strings, like "abc", where you want to segment.
then replace "^p" with a space. then replace "abc" with "^p".
Copy from PDF to Word (line-wrapping issue)