add line breaks without breaking word

Rose Greene

i was wondering if there was a way i could add a line break every x amount of characters without breaking words? something kind of like this:

before

hello! this is just a fake line of text for this example. have a good day!

after

hello! this is just a 
fake line of text for 
this example. have a 
good day!

kind of like this website.

i wanted to record a macro of it so i wouldn’t have to constantly go to the website mentioned.

thank you!

PeterJones

@Rose-Greene ,

It’s not a macro, because macro won’t change a setting… but if you go to Preferences > Margins/Border/Edge, and change the Vertical Edge Settings to 23 (for your example), then hit Ctrl+I (aka Edit > Line Operations > Split), it will split the line at the margin. So you can pick the appropriate Vertical Edge column and then use the Split command to do what you want.

There are ways to get regular expression search/replace to do something similar, but this is much simpler, IMO.

Rose Greene

@PeterJones This works great thanks!

Abed99

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Abed99

PeterJones mention a good way and here is another way using regex:

search for :(\w+\.?!?\s){2}
replace with : $&\r\n
search mode : regular expression

change 2 to the X amount of characters you want