I am trying to create a conference abstract submission using a rmarkdown file which exports to a word document. I am trying to find a way to insert a blank line in the outputted word document. Apr 25, 2008 - Blank Space Method. Place the insertion point where you want the ruling line (underlining). On the Format menu, click Font. In the Underline style box, select the line style you want, and then click OK. For every blank space you want to underline, press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR.
The Find and Replace function in Word is commonly used to remove all empty lines, but you have to know the empty lines are called Manual Line Breaks in the Find What option. Click Replace on the Home tab. See screenshot: 2. When the Find and Replace dialog popping up, click More button to show more options. And then put the cursor in the Find What field, and select the Manual Line Break from the Special pull-down menu, see screenshot: 3.
There will be a “ ^l” character in the Find What field, and click Replace All. All manual line breaks have been deleted at once, see screenshot: Remove all empty lines with VBA Alternatively you can use a macro to remove all empty lines if you are good at VBA code, and you may follow the below instructions like this: 1.
Press Alt+F11 to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window. Click Insert Module, and then copy the below VBA code into the module window.
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VBA code: removing all manual line breaks in the document: Sub Deleemptylines Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find.Text = '^l'.Replacement.Text = '.Forward = True.Wrap = wdFindContinue.Format = False.MatchCase = False.MatchWholeWord = False.MatchByte = False.MatchAllWordForms = False.MatchSoundsLike = False.MatchWildcards = False.MatchFuzzy = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll End Sub 3. Then click Run Sub button to run the code, all the manual line breaks will be removed. Remove all empty lines with kutools for Word The above methods require a few steps to remove all empty lines, but with Kutools for Word, only one click will help you complete this operation.: with more than 100 handy Word add-ins, free to try with no limitation in 60 days.
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Word users often create printed fill-in forms that include underlined blanks spaces for writing in form data. While you can press Shift + - (hyphen) repeatedly to create these underlined spaces, it's difficult to line up the lines.
Leader tabs make it easier to create even lines, as well as saving keystrokes, but you're limited to four underline styles. Using the Underline button to underline tab characters gives you all the advantages of leader tabs with a wider choice of underline styles. For example, say you have used tabs to lay out your form, as shown in Figure A. Figure A To create the lines, just follow these steps.
Click the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar so that you can see tab marks in your document. In Word 2007, click Show/Hide on the Home tab in the Paragraph group. Go to Format Font, choose the thick underline style from the Underline drop-down list, and click OK. In Word 2007, go to the Home tab, click the Underline button arrow in the Font group, and select a style from the Underline style list ( Figure C). Figure C All lines will be printed, as shown in Figure D. Figure D Miss a Word tip? Check out the and catch up on other Word tips.
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