'Carriage Returns'...

[Duleigh]

Thanks to all for your insight into this.
I convert to Word for uploading.
I don’t believe I’m ‘forcing’ anything. I just type then, when I want a new paragraph, hit ‘enter’ twice.
I shall check out the .rtf, MrPixel. Thanks…
And yeah, Simon, a link would have been handy. Oops…
And Millie? I thought I was keeping it simple! Lol
Thanks to you all, though.
I do appreciate your help.
Regards…

In Word if you hit the backward double-leg P on the tool bar (sometimes called the show/hide button) all your hidden characters come up. A backwards double-leg P at the end of the paragraph is a Paragraph mark, that's a solid thing, two of them in a row will give you a blank line between paragraphs.

A bent arrow pointing to the left is a carriage return, or a manual line break, or a soft return. They're created by holding down the shift key while hitting return. AVOID THEM - THEY'RE EVIL, they have a use, but not pure text document. It may look like a blank line to you, but to Pages and to Word they're still part of the paragraph above, other pieces of software may not recognize them at all. I search all my documents for them and make sure I replace them with a paragraph mark.

To replace them hit Ctrl+h and in the find box put in ^l (carrot and lower-case L) and in the replace box put in ^p (carrot and lower-case P) the carrot is a shifted 6. That should clear up your problems.

 

[MetaBob]

I used to write in .txt here, but also relied on Lit's Preview mode, which is pretty solid. .txt is the most portable format, readable and easily handled on all platforms, though keep in mind that carriage returns and line feeds, and how different OSes and word processors handle them, might always be an issue. .txt worked fine for me here.

When my work started getting published, I switched to Pages on a Mac. I have steered clear of MS Word for decades; many of its features are unnecessary to me and just clutter up its UI, to say nothing of Microsoft's penchant for changing file formats every few years and requiring software updates to handle them. A real word processor like Pages (or MS Word) might be less portable and more intrusive to my process, but it saves me the trouble (and my editor the hassle) of interpreting HTML tags into their bold and italic equivalents the way they had to when I used .txt .

My editor and publisher use MS Word. I export my Pages docs into .rtf format before submitting to them; it's almost as portable as .txt and supports what simple text formatting I occasionally use. I imagine the same will work here.

 

[Boo96]

Thanks for the heads up, MetaBob. I have uploaded two files to Lit, and have used their Preview mode. It seems to work the best for me. I'm waiting for the second to be published to see if the extra time involved has paid off!
Thanks for your thoughts though.
Regards

 

[Boo96]

In Word if you hit the backward double-leg P on the tool bar (sometimes called the show/hide button) all your hidden characters come up. A backwards double-leg P at the end of the paragraph is a Paragraph mark, that's a solid thing, two of them in a row will give you a blank line between paragraphs.

A bent arrow pointing to the left is a carriage return, or a manual line break, or a soft return. They're created by holding down the shift key while hitting return. AVOID THEM - THEY'RE EVIL, they have a use, but not pure text document. It may look like a blank line to you, but to Pages and to Word they're still part of the paragraph above, other pieces of software may not recognize them at all. I search all my documents for them and make sure I replace them with a paragraph mark.

To replace them hit Ctrl+h and in the find box put in ^l (carrot and lower-case L) and in the replace box put in ^p (carrot and lower-case P) the carrot is a shifted 6. That should clear up your problems.

Delight. Yeah, I'm familiar with the icons you have mentioned, and try to pay attention to them, but it must be something in the way I go in and re-edit that is causing these glitches. I do notice if I go back and re-check, I amend all the 'end of paragraphs' that have deleted 'dot' to the left of the double leg P. It's a constant 'struggle' though, as many times, when I go back to and re-read ( perhaps the next day) the little buggers are there, again. I rid myself of the 'bent arrow' problem a while ago, so that's one less thing to 'worry' about. I'll check out your solution in the last line of your response.
Thanks
I do appreciate your time on this frustrating thing.
Regards

 

[Duleigh]

Delight. Yeah, I'm familiar with the icons you have mentioned, and try to pay attention to them, but it must be something in the way I go in and re-edit that is causing these glitches. I do notice if I go back and re-check, I amend all the 'end of paragraphs' that have deleted 'dot' to the left of the double leg P. It's a constant 'struggle' though, as many times, when I go back to and re-read ( perhaps the next day) the little buggers are there, again. I rid myself of the 'bent arrow' problem a while ago, so that's one less thing to 'worry' about. I'll check out your solution in the last line of your response.
Thanks
I do appreciate your time on this frustrating thing.
Regards

It happens, I do it myself and Word has been my favorite computer game since before the turn of the century. I used to troubleshoot and teach Word on Mac clones' way back when Mac clones were legal to build and sell. To me it happens when I'm typing something with a lot of Shift + or Ctrl + other keys and somehow Shift + Enter gets used.

If you get used to that find & replace (Ctrl+H) function, you'll see that it comes in real handy to clean up documents with messy formatting. I love to use it to clean up old .txt documents with a lot of double spaces and using multiple spaces for a tabbed indentation.