Search for ^p^p and replace with a space or nothing as appropriate. Keep in
mind that this may reduce all the text to a single paragraph, so you may
want to find the actual paragraph breaks first and replace them with
something distinctive that you can later replace with ^p.

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"jldube" wrote in message
...
I'm using Word 2003, and recently had a problem with a document prepared
by
someone else: the originator, instead of formatting the document for
double
spacing, manually placed two hard returns at the end of each line.
Subsequently, I had to add some text to the document, and I did not put
manual returns, as I was not aware of what the originator had done. So,
I
had some lines that had two hard returns at the end of the line, and some
that had automatic returns (single-spaced). What I wanted to do was search
for the two hard returns, and replace them with nothing, and then I was
going
to select the whole document, and use a macro I've created for double
spacing.

However, I was not able to find the character in the search dialog box for
the manual hard return. Does it exist? I ultimately fixed the document
line
by line, but would like to know what to do if this situation occurs
again.

Thank you for your time.

Jeannine Dube