"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

As I posted later, the search term I gave you *does* work provided you have
"Use wildcards" checked. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm for more on taking
care of short lines.

Dear Suzanne,

Yes you are right it does work perfectly! I think my problem before was that
I had stray spaces in the 'replace with' box.

Anyway I am using first
replace ^p with (space)
and then
replace {2,} with (space)

This is doing a great job on the text - giving me long lines and no multiple
spaces - all that remains is to re-insert the paragraph breaks = easy peasy.
Thanks v much to all for your help.