How to remove extra carriage return - Word

Question

Hi,

Redirected from Visual C# forum, sry for double post...

Im using C# and word API to copy the content of one document onto another with template to apply the macros. However when pasting a extra carriage return is added and i've been trying some solutions found on this forum but none worked.

A simple solution: How can i move the cursor to the end of the document and then use backspace?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

Im using C# and word API to copy the content of one document onto another with template to apply the macros. However when pasting a extra carriage return is added and i've been trying some solutions found on this forum but none worked.

A simple solution: How can i move the cursor to the end of the document and then use backspace?

Thanks

Answer 2

Welcome to MSDN Forums.

However you may got an answer here but also try Word For Developers Forum where you'll find more related experts.

Sincerely,

Yasser.

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Answer 3

Hi just_rice

I'm not sure that your proposed approach is the best one, but that's hard to say without more information... Most likely, this extra carriage return is the combination of the last paragraph mark in the target document and the last paragraph mark in the source document. Deleting the one or the other could change critical formatting, so before deciding which one to remove you need to determine whether the section formatting in the one or the other is most important.

This is best done testing as an end-user. Open both documents in Word. In the source document, test the following two scenarios:

1. Ctrl+A (select all), Ctrl+C, switch to the target document and paste (Ctrl+V), then press Del.

2. Ctrl+A, Shift+Left Arrow (this cuts off the last paragraph mark), Ctrl+C, switch to the target document and paste.

Which of these two approaches gives you the better result?

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Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP

Answer 4

Well the reason for this copy paste is that the macros in template are password protected which I can't do through just C# code (except using sendkeys which i prefer not to use).

Thanks for your answers but I'm doing this in C# so do you know the methods to make your operations? It is as you say that when copying I get the extra last paragraph mark.

Answer 5

Hi just_rice

You first need to decide which paragraph mark you should be deleting, which is why I wrote out those two sets of steps. The code you need depends on which paragraph mark you prefer to keep.

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Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP