how to delete blank lines in a document

[Aleta Floyd]

anyway to delete blank lines in a long document without
manually deleting each one? i.e. delete all in a batch/
at one time.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the "blank lines" are empty paragraphs, you can search for ^p^p and
replace with ^p, continuing until you get 0 replacements. Note that this
will not work if the paragraphs are not truly empty (that is, if they
contain any spaces). You'll have better success if you display nonprinting
characters (Ctrl+*) so that you can see what you're dealing with.

If the blank lines are created with Space Before/After, you will need to
modify the paragraph formatting of the relevant style.

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[martinique]

You can catch the blank lines that contain spaces or tabs using ^p^w^p as
your search string.

 

[Graham Mayor]

A wildard search for
[^13]{2,}
replace with
^p
will remove all extra empty lines in one pass.

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