WD: Linefeeds or Line Breaks Become Paragraph Marks

ID: Q24684

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition
• Microsoft Word for the Macintosh versions 3.x, 4.0, 5.x, 6.x
• Microsoft Word for Windows versions 2.x, 6.x, 7.x

SUMMARY

After saving a document in Text Only or Text Only With Line Breaks format, all line feeds and line breaks are converted to paragraph marks. These characters include newline characters [created by pressing SHIFT+RETURN on the main keyboard], page breaks, and section breaks.

MORE INFORMATION

In addition to converting all line breaks to paragraph marks, the Text Only With Line Breaks file format inserts a paragraph mark at the end of each line.

REFERENCES

"Microsoft Word User's Guide," version 5.0, pages 66-67, 661-664.

"Reference to Microsoft Word," version 4.0, pages 311-314.

"Reference to Microsoft Word," version 3.0, pages 314-316.

Additional query words: linefeed

Keywords          : word8 macword98 winword macword word7 word95 
Version           : MACINTOSH:3.x,4.0,5.x,6.x,98;WINDOWS:2.x,6.x,7.x,97
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: November 10, 1998