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Charles Kenyon
 
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Default How can I automatically eliminate all blank lines from a word

Did you try repeating it until you get no replacements?
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"JPRENDER" wrote in message
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Thanks for your response. Tried your suggestion though Word indicated that
over 6500+ change were made, my doc was only reduced by 2 pages.

Is there another possible solution?

"Jezebel" wrote:

Use Find and Replace: Find ^p^p (two consecutive paragraph marks) and
replace with ^p (one paragraph mark). Use Replace All repeatedly until
you stop finding any more.

You might also need to deal with lines that contain only spaces (which
the
above won't match).


"JPRENDER" wrote in message
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I have a 900+ page document and more than half of contains blank lines.
Is
there a way to automatically eliminate on the blank lines in the
document?