What setting in Word puts hard returns at end of each line?

[jrbpub]

I am a newspaper editor and often get Word documents from freelancers, etc.
When I flow their stories into a pagination program I find that each line has
a hard return (paragraph mark) and must be edited by hand. I looked through
the options in Word and couldn't pinpoint the setting that creates this
situation. I'd appreciate any help.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

It's created by people who don't know what they are doing. They assume they
need to hit the enter key instead of allowing word wrap to do it's thing.

 

[Greg Maxey]

You might find this helpful:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Saving as text with line breaks would do it, or sending a document in the
body of a plain-text email, but, as JoAnn says, a lot of writers haven't
figured out that Word is not a typewriter.