pasting from pdf text

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  gerryco23 · Member · Mar 31, 2014 at 2:19 pm

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  Since the recent changes to the text editor, there seems to be no option for removing line breaks. This was really useful when pasting text from a pdf document arranged in columns. Now I have to manually remove every line break. A case of one step forward two steps back?

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  lnmg · Member · Apr 3, 2014 at 9:59 pm

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  At last – someone else recognises the same problem as me. This doesn’t seem to be attracting the attention of the developers. It is now taking me 4 times as long to create a posting from a pdf document.

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  jackiedana · Member · Apr 3, 2014 at 10:26 pm

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  If you are seeing extra line breaks in text posted from another source, please go into your Text editor and search for the following:

  & nbsp;

  (remove the space between the & and the n).

  Sometimes pasting in text will add extra “non-breaking spaces” into your posts.

  You can also check for < span> tags that add extra line height and remove those as well.

  Because you’re pasting from a PDF, you might also be able to use the Paste as Plain Text button (the T) which should not carry over any extra formatting.

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  gerryco23 · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 8:21 am

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  @jackie dana: You have missed my point. The new text editor pastes text straight into the post, not into a text editor box which had a tick box where you could select to remove line breaks. This option has now been removed, meaning each line break has to be removed manually. Surely a backward step?

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  lnmg · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 9:17 am

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  Agree. It is the tick box that is missing. It allowed wrap around to the width of the WordPress article.