^13{2,} did not wark. Nothing happened, can I use a macro or a temp. or
something??

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Well, 50 pages is not really a long document, but it's pretty long to be
doing this manually. You can remove excess paragraph marks as follows:

1. Press Ctrl+H to open the Replace dialog.

2. Click on the More button to expand the dialog.

3. Check the box for "Use wildcards."

4. In the "Find what" box, type ^13{2,}

5. Leave the "Replace with" box empty.

6. Replace All.

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"Jason" wrote in message
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I have a old and very long document, this document is over 50 pages long
and
was created by someone else in Microsoft Word document does not have page
breaks the individual continuously hit the enter key to move the text down
a
new page was designed. Ther instead of letting wordwrap automatically
the
individual always hit a hard return. the individual hit the space-bar
key
continuously to move text to the last is there a way other than manually
deleting all the returns and spaces set this document and so it looks
right