Deleting soft returns

[Louis]

I am copying some text and wish to remove the soft line
codes ¶ from the whole document. I am using WORD2000.
Any assistance is very much appreciated!

 

[Greg Maxey]

Louis,

Those are not soft line codes. They are paragraph marks.
See:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

specifically the section "other non-printing characters
worth replacing."