Macro to remove empty line spaces, i.e. more than one 'carriagereturn', in a veeeery long document

[John]

Hi.

I am going through a bunch of documents, by hand and deleting extra
'carriage line returns'.

Can anyone suggest an easy/efficient way of doing this?

I thought of using Find+Replace - perhaps that's the best way? Or
could a macro do it?

Thanks

Clueless Coder

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Find and replace can do it.

If it is just one empty line at each location that you need to delete, you
can simply replace ^p^p with ^p

If there are two or more empty lines at each place then you could use a
Wildcard replace with ^13{1,} and replace it with ^p

 

[John]

Find and replace can do it.

If it is just one empty line at each location that you need to delete, you
can simply replace ^p^p with ^p

If there are two or more empty lines at each place then you could use a
Wildcard replace with ^13{1,} and replace it with ^p

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Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

Hi.

I am going through a bunch of documents, by hand and deleting extra
'carriage line returns'.

Can anyone suggest an easy/efficient way of doing this?

I thought of using Find+Replace - perhaps that's the best way? Or
could a macro do it?

Thanks

Clueless Coder- Hide quoted text -

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Awesome, thanks for the wildcard replace trick. Didn't know that one!