The secret is not to use empty paragraphs as "blank lines." Use Space
Before/After instead.

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"MKA" wrote in message
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I'm doing some medical transcription work and I need to count the number
of
lines for only those lines that having typing in them, NOT BLANK LINES OR
PARAGRAPHS. Some of my documents are so long, that i'm not going to
manually
select each blank line and "suppress" it - this will take too long. Is
there
any other way?