Maybe the reason why there are still some p marks is because a p mark is not
followed immediately by another p mark, but by a blank space and only then by
another paragraph mark. In that case looking for "^p^p" will miss them;
you'll need to find "^p ^p".

"thelisha" wrote:

Thank you for the tip, it helped in deleting some of the paragraph spacing.
There are still some marks but at least not as many as before. This document
has really been worked on and I have been tasked with fixing it up so any
useful tip like this really comes in handy.
Thanks!
Thelisha

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

You can find and replace 2 paragraph marks with 1, by clicking the More
button in the Find and Replace dialog, and using the Special menu.


On 11/30/04 10:05 AM, "thelisha" wrote:

I am formatting a large document and I just figured out the reason the text
keeps going all over the place is because instead of using styles to format
the paragraphs, they pressed Enter twice to create a new paragraph. This is
causing all sorts of trouble to edit and format because blank spaces keep
appearing at the top of the pages along with other strange formatting
appearing where it should not. Is there a way in Word 2003 to remove all of
these "hard reutrns" or will I have to manually go through the document to
delete them? I honestly hope there is a way because the document is 300+
pages! So any assistance will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Thelisha

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