Clarification: Replacing ^p with nothing obviously deletes *all* blank
paragraphs, making the document consist of only one big paragraph, which is
usually not what you want.
If you are searching for a specific text string followed by a paragraph
mark, you can use the following:
This is the text of the paragraph.^p
Replacing that with nothing will delete the entire paragraph.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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To remove blank paragraphs, you need to search for ^p and replace with
nothing.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
wrote in message
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On Friday, April 28, 2000 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, wrote:
I want to eliminate a recurring short paragraph in some documents.
I know how to put the entire contents of the paragraph in the search
field, but how can I put a backspace character in the replace field so
that the blank line will be deleted?
Alternately, putting a [delete] character would work also, I think.
Any help?
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Before you buy.
Yes there is in Microsoft Word. For example, if you wanted to replace
two SPACEs with two BACKSPACES, then you would do the following in the
Find and Replace window.
Find: Press the SPACE bar twice
Replace: ^r^r (These are the circumflex characters for BACKSPACE)
Works great.