Copy text from pdf - paste into word in successive rows, not row separated based on PDF

[Retko]

Hello,

When I past text which is copied from PDF-Xchange to Word, rows of text stays the same as in the PDF,
For example, if PDF has this rows:

AAAAA AAAA BBBB
BBBB CCCC DD
DDD
FFFF

After pasting into word, I also will have 4 rows. What I want is to make it successive, like this:
AAAAA AAAA BBBB BBBB CCCC DD DDD FFFF

And I want it automatically, without the need to use delete at the end of each row.

Can someone help me? Is it possible?

Thanks.

[Willy Van Nuffel]

In Microsoft Word, you use the "Find and Replace" function:
- in Find what, click the "Special" button
- select "Paragraph Marks" or "Manual Line Breaks"
- in Replace with, you can leave this empty, or type a space character
- click the "Replace All" button

[Retko]

Not exactly what I want.

I dont want to delete all paragraph marks in my word, just at the text that I am pasting.
There must be some easier solution, or probably setting.

Thanks.

[Willy Van Nuffel]

If you first select the text, then you can run the replace just for that selection.

For as far as I know, there is no out-of-the-box solution for what you like to achieve.

Maybe if one could write a macro in Word that does the "Paste" by first removing the line breaks.

[Ovg]

Free Clipboard manager Ditto has ability removing CRLF while pasting

[Willy Van Nuffel]

I had a short look at Ditto and yes it seems to be possible to remove one or more 'unwanted' characters.
But, this has to be done via 'ChaiScript'. Examples are provided, but we do not know if Retko is prepared to try this.
A lot depends of the frequency of the Copy/Paste actions.

So, I would give:
- the link to Ditto's homepage on sourceforge.net
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ditto-cp/

- the link to the scripting examples:
https://sourceforge.net/p/ditto-cp/wiki/Scripting/

On the other hand, (for me) this is somewhat out of the scope of the Tracker Software forum.

Best regards.

[Dimitar - Tracker Supp]

Hello Retko,

You can use Excel to do this job.

Paste the text to Excel, click on a cell in which you want to put the edited text.

After that, click on the Insert Function button.
Search for the CONCATENATE function and select the cells you want to combine:

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Or you can use online tool like Text to One Line ( Google it )


Regards.

[Ovg]

Sorry for the offtopic
2Willy Van Nuffel
Ditto can this "out of the box":

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In any case I don't advertise Ditto.
Sorry for the offtopic

[Dimitar - Tracker Supp]

There seem to be many ways to achieve what he wants.

The only thing left now is choosing one of them.

Regards.

[Timur Born]

I just recently ran into the same problem (and posted a corresponding feature suggestion), so I did some internet search and found my solution in form of a Autohotkey script. The script removes newlines and hyphens "-" at the end of a line while keeping paragraphs intact (except for single headlines, which become the first sentence of a paragraph instead).

But: It converts Rich Text formatting to pure text, which is not always useful.

And since Editor knows best about the formatting, paragraphs and whatnot of a PDF it would make sense if Editor could offer a tool to copy text without newlines and hyphens, while keeping the overall structure intact.

[Dimitar - Tracker Supp]

Hello Timur Born,

I will check, and if such feature request is not submitted, I will make one.

This looks like a nice feature to have in our products ( and rare one too ).

Regards.