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I have several pages of paragraphs with line lengths of about ten words.
Each line ends with a "hard enter". How do I delete the "enters" at one
time, rather than going in and removing each one?
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One way is to use Find/Replace, replacing ^p with a space.

But... does this concatenate paragraphs you won't want concatenated? If so,
an alternative depends upon there being 2 paragraph marks between things
that you really want to be separate paragraphs. If there are, then the
following 3-step Find/Replace does it:

Replace:^p^p With: %%%%%

Replace: ^p With:[space]

Replace:%%%%% With: ^p

Another approach is to use AutoFormat with all of the options turned off.
Choose Format - AutoFormat - Options. Remove the checks next to everything.
Click OK - OK. This usually works, but not always.

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I have several pages of paragraphs with line lengths of about ten words.
Each line ends with a "hard enter". How do I delete the "enters" at one
time, rather than going in and removing each one?



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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

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I have several pages of paragraphs with line lengths of about ten words.
Each line ends with a "hard enter". How do I delete the "enters" at one
time, rather than going in and removing each one?


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