Martin,

Why is it better to replace every paragraph mark [^13]{1,} with a paragraph
mark ^p rather than any series of two or more paragraph marks [^13]{2,} with
a paragraph mark ^p as I originally suggested in my web article?

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
A Peer in Peer to Peer Support

Martin P wrote:
Improvement on my own post:

A better way of removing unnecessary paragraph marks is to enabel
Wildcards
and replace [^13]{1,} with ^p.

"Martin P" wrote:

Blank lines are mostly due to extra paragraph marks (hard returns).
Go to
Edit Replace and keep on replacing paragraph mark paragraph mark
(^p^p) with paragraph mark (^p) until that message tells you 1
replacement has been made. Then do the counting.

"Carol" wrote:

I do typing work for various companies and doctors. As many
companies like to pay by the number of lines, (and they don't want
to pay for blank lines), I need to be able to calculate this. As
far as I know, MS Word includes the blank lines in the line count
and there is no way to change this to make it add up only the lines
which actually have words on them. Am I correct? If there is a
way to make it count only the lines with words, and not blank
lines, I would really appreciate it if someone would let me know.
Otherwise, I am forced to do this manually, which cuts into my
time, productivity, and ultimately income.