Are there a way to, preferable automatically (rulewise), indent the first line of a paragraph in Google Docs but not doing that for text directly under a heading?
Example:
First heading
Here the line is not indented.
Here it is
here the text wraps down from its beginning "here it is".
Here too.
Second heading
Not indented.
But here.
I have seen that there is a way of doing this for all texts, headings included, but that is not what one would want - at least not when writing texts in my native swedish language.
Related
I'm encountering a problem in Markdown paragraph.
I use Notepad in Microsoft Windows to create .md file and use Typora for rendering.
The new lines in the same paragraph are treated as new line in rendering.
For example, if my .md file contains the following text
Electric Field inside
a conductor
is zero
The Typora renders as it is with new lines....whereas it is expected the rendering should be like this
Electric Field inside a conductor is zero.
i.e new lines inside the same paragraph to be formatted in proper paragraph sense and not like code listing. Whats the mistake I' doing ?.
Typora seems to not follow typical Markdown behavior in this regard. As explained in their documentation:
A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text. In
markdown source code, paragraphs are separated by two or more blank
lines. In Typora, you only need one blank line (press Return once)
to create a new paragraph.
Press Shift + Return to create a single line break. Most other
markdown parsers will ignore single line breaks, so in order to make
other markdown parsers recognize your line break, you can leave two
spaces at the end of the line, or insert <br/>.
I uncheck "Allow row to break across pages" for a table's properties So, the table is shown on a new page to ensure that all the content is on one page, this works fine. But Word generates a blank space before the page break, I need to replace it with some text for a legal reason. I can't use a watermark or shapes because un Oracle BI Publisher only prints it on PDF and I need to export it to a docx.
The data is dynamic, so sometimes the text before the table and the text inside the table may change.
Current Version https://imgur.com/a/FTx0q
I need some like this https://imgur.com/a/ySitL
MS Office support told me that it can't be done with Word...
Maybe with VBA code?
Update
Thanks Cindy for your help.
I have a table into another table many paragraphs, checkbox etc and they are fitting on a new page. It's working.
I understand there isn't a page break.
It's Paragraph mark.
But what I need to do is insert a kind of mark, a text like XXXX,-----------, Instead of leaving "free space",
It's a requirement not change the font size or another text format.
For a legal requirement, some paragraph must fit on a new page and "blank spaces" replaced by a kind of mark.
I can't hard code it because in several cases not all the paragraphs or section in a page will be shown and I don't know by default when a new page is needed.
I am available to use macros or anything.
What you could do is insert a page-size table into a textbox in the page header and format the body text with a white background. The table will thus be hidden behind any text on the page, but not otherwise (provided you don't pad unused space with empty paragraphs, etc.).
I need to be able to find every place in my document (hundreds of pages) where there is a formatting change without a space. For example:
a bold partnext to regular text
Or red text next to black with no space. I want to have my macro find each "word" (in the vba sense) like this, and execute code based on that character location accordingly. (The loop should identify the character position where the format change occurs... although I can do that part with a loop through the characters within the found word).
Is there a simpler way to do this than by looping character by character through the whole document and checking for a difference in formatting, which would be too resource-intensive?
Thanks for your help.
My Google-fu must be very weak today, ’cause this seems like an obvious thing to need to do sometimes, yet I cannot find a single case of anyone ever asking about it anywhere…
I have a document that I am preparing for proper typesetting in InDesign, which includes among other things getting rid of local overrides to paragraph and character styles. I did an find-and-replace to replace all instances of italic text with a character style called Italic, but stupidly forgot to limit this to text with the Normal style applied.
There are hundreds of headers strewn throughout the document which are supposed to be italic; that’s part of their paragraph style definitions. Since I forgot to limit the find-and-replace, the Italic style was applied to all these many headers. Annoyingly, since ‘italic’ is something like a boolean switch in Word, this means that all these headers are now not italic in the document.
I didn’t notice this for a while, so I can’t simply undo it now—the file has been saved and worked on since the find-and-replace. The author (who is a cantankerous, octogenarian technophobe) also needs to see the file again before it’s set, so while ultimately it doesn’t matter whether or not the font is italic in the Word document, it will matter to him.
So what I would very much like to do is to search for all text which has both the paragraph style Header and the character style Italic applied, and remove the character style.
This is an easy task in InDesign where paragraph and character styles are separate entities, but not in Word where they’re all lumped together in one big, messy pile. It doesn’t seem like it can be done through the UI, so I’m guessing I’ll have to resort to a VBA macro… which I’m utterly incompetent at.
Is there a way to find text with a particular paragraph style and a particular character style, and then remove the character style from that text?
here is some code to get you started
press F5 to run code, it will stop at Stop command
examine the Immediate window to determine the header style
each paragraph gets selected, so that you can tell which one you are examining
you can then modify the code with if/then statement to make specific paragraphs italic
Sub aaaa()
Dim ppp As Paragraph
Dim ccc As Range
For Each ppp In ActiveDocument.Content.Paragraphs
ppp.Range.Select ' visual aid only. not used by any other part of the program
Debug.Print "style :", ppp.Style
Debug.Print ppp.Style.Description
Stop
For Each ccc In ppp.Range.Characters ' you can probably comment out these 3 lines
Debug.Print ccc.FormattedText.Italic ' True prints as -1
Next ccc
Debug.Print "italic :", ppp.Range.Italic ' prints -1 if all are italic. 9999999 if some. 0 if none
ppp.Range.Italic = False ' this removes italic from whole paragraph
Next ppp
End Sub
I need to analyze text of my Word document, and create bookmarks on range of text my analyzer has detected (almost like a grammar checker).
I don't want use Find() utility, because my needs are too specific.
Explanations
For that,
1/ Retrieve Document plain text
I Retrieve Plain text of the main story of my document :
String plainText = ActiveDocument.Range().Text;
2/ Analyze plain text and get results
I send it to my analyzer tool which return a collection of marker with position :
For example, if I wanted to detected the pattern "my pattern" in the document text, analyzer could return a marker as { pattern : "my marker", start: 5, end : 14 }, where "start" and "end" are the character indexes of the pattern in the plain text sent.
3/ Display results in Document
I create bookmark from theses markers
For previously example, it woold be :
// init a new range and collapse it
Word.Range range = activeDocument.Range(); range.Collapse(WdCollapseStart);
// move character-by-character in the "formatted" text
range.MoveStart(WdUnits.Character, Marker.start ); # Marker.start=5
//set length (end)
range.setRange(range.Start,range.Start+(Marker.End-Marker.Start)); #Marker.end=14
4/ Results
4.1 Global Result
Everything is OK when Document Main Story Contains Text, links, lists, titles :
Ranges are well positionned, Plain Text indexes correlate with formatted text indexes.
4.2 Arrays Issue
When a document contains an array, Ranges are bad positionned a few characters : Plain Text indexes correlate not exactly with formatted text indexes.
I found the reason of this issue (It was explained in others forums) : this is due to non printing char(7), which is a cell delimiter added in plain text. We can handle these chars to calculate position range and everything is OK !
4.3 Issue for Content Controls, Table of contents, Sections and others
When a document contains theses elements, Ranges are also bad positionned a few characters.
Others non printing appears in plain text but I don't understand what it means and how deal with to calculate position range.
By displaying Word element markers with "Developer ribbon > creation mode", we see 2 markers per elements : shifting plain text indexes by 2*elements resolve issues. It's seems OK.
4.4 Issue with Endpaper
I don't know how we says "page de garde" (french) in english, I think it's "endpaper" : this is the first page with specific header, footer and content controls :)
When a document contains an Endpaper, Ranges are also bad positionned a few characters.
But this time, there are not non printing marker in the plain text.
Other info, when I display word element markers with "Developer ribbon > creation mode", I see endpaper markers.
Questions
How detect Endpaper in Word Document Range ?
How understand Plain Text indexes don't always correlate with formatted text indexes, in function of Word document elements which contains ?
XML nodes manipulation would be a more reliable alternative for that? If yes, could you give me good examples to manage bookmars or others in current document with XML Api ?
Others ressources
I found similar issues :
Correlate Range.Text to Range.Start and Range.End
http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?36710-Strange-character-on-table-range-text
I hope my explanations are clear and you can help me to understand what is wrong or show me a best way to do that ?
Thanks, really.
It's not really pretty but you can try to remove the unwanted characters by Regex. For example to remove the \a letters (it has code 7):
string j = new string(new char[] { (char)7 });
plainText = Regex.Replace(plainText,string.Format("[{0}]", j), "");
Now you have to identify the other 'evil' characters and add them to the char array. If it works you will get a string whose length corresponds with the number of Characters in your document. Probably you have to adapt this code by experimenting. (I was not sure which language you are using - I supposed C#.)
Update
Another idea (if it is applicable to your analyzer tool):
Break your problem down to single paragraphs:
foreach(Word.Paragraph pg in activeDocument.Paragraphs)
{
Word.Range range = pg.Range();
string text = range.Text;
// your stuff here
}
With this paragraph range objects and the contained text strings you do the same as you tried to do with the whole document object and its text - just paragraph by paragraph. All these paragraphs are 'addressable' by ranges and Move operations as you already do it. I suppose that the problematic characters are outside or at the end of the paragraphs so they don't influence the character counting inside these paragraphs.
As I can't reproduce what you call endpaper I can't validate it. Besides I don't know if special text ranges as page headers and tables of content are covered by paragraphs. But at least you can reduce your problem to smaller ranges. I think it is worth trying.