Tool: How do you remove extra paragraph mark in Word?
Sometime when you copied some doc from, let say a pdf doc, you tend to have a paragraph mark or ‘end of line’ mark , that indicate the end of paragraph/line. The problem is, it remain in Word and give an ugly look to your doc. How do we remove it?
Here’s how:
Find/Replace (Ctrl-H)
Assuming that paragraphs are divided by an extra paragraph mark,
1. In the Find box, type ^p^p
In the Replace box, type ^l (small L)
Click Replace All
2a. (assuming there’s a space between the last word on each line and
the paragraph mark)
In the Find box, type ^p
Clear the Replace box entirely
Click Replace All
2b (if there’s no space between the last word on each line and the
paragraph mark)
In the Find box, type ^p
In the Replace box, type one space (you won’t see anything)
Click Replace All
3. In the Find box, type ^l (small L)
In the Replace box, type ^p
Click Replace All.