WD2000: Line Feeds or Line Breaks Become Paragraph Marks

ID: Q211701

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you save a document in Text Only or Text Only with Line Breaks format, all line feeds and line breaks are converted to paragraph marks.

CAUSE

This functionality is by design. Characters that turn into paragraph marks include the following:

New Line Characters (created by pressing SHIFT+ENTER)

Text Wrapping Break (on the Insert menu click Break, and then click to select Text Wrapping Break)

Page Breaks

Section Breaks

NOTE: These changes can be seen when you open the saved text document again in Microsoft Word.

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.

Additional query words: linefeed

Keywords : kbdta wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb