Replacing paragraph marks in Word 2002 (XP)

[Keith Paschal]

Folks;

In previous versions of Word, you could find a paragraph
mark with ^p in the "find" dialog box. Now, however,
the ^p does not seem to work in Office XP (2002). I have
a 1700 page document converted from powerpoint that has 2
paragraph marks at the top of each page. I want to
remove these double paragraph marks. In a previous
version of Word I would find: ^p^p and replace it with
^p

Any hints as to how to do this in Word 2002?

Thanks;

Keith Paschal

 

[JudithJubilee]

Your method works on mine. Have you chosen the ^p from
the Special list? Also are you sure there are onl 2
paragraph marks because if their are more it will not
replace them.

Hope this helps
Judith

 

[Graham Mayor]

^p works in all Word versions
however to remove multiple paragraph marks use a wildcard replacement
Replace:

^13{1,}
with
^p


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[Klaus Linke]

Hi Keith,

Are there page breaks? If you have a page break followed by an empty
paragraph followed by a regular paragraph, you don't have any ^p^p... you
have ^m^p<some text>^p

To remove empty paragraphs following the page break, try replacing ^m^p with
^m.
Or, to remove any number of them, try a wildcard replacement (^12)^13{1,}
with \1 (^12 being the ASCII code Word uses for page breaks).

Regards,
Klaus