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From: Peter T. Daniels on 15 May 2010 12:20
It's like a Towers of Hanoi puzzle. You have to use some _third_ mark:
first replace all ^p^p with ^l (or any other character that doesn't
appear anywhere in the document yet), then replace all ^p with either
nothing or space (depending on how the text was formatted), and then
replace the intermediate character with ^p.

On May 15, 12:11 pm, Willy <Wi...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi Suzanne,
>
> > You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t
>
> This will only work when there are exactly two paragraph marks between
> paragraphs.
>
> If there are more they will not all be found on the first pass and if some
> of the pairs have been replaced by ^p^t they won't be found on the next
> pass(es).
>
> Willy
>
>
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
> > You might as well start by replacing ^p^p with ^p^t, but it would be better
> > to apply a first-line indent to each of the paragraphs, better still to
> > apply a style that includes the first line indent, such as Body Text First
> > Indent.
>
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > Words into Type
> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> >http://word.mvps.org
>
> > "Willy" <Wi...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:C3897317-7C2D-4D41-9DFE-2A4E7F302F4E(a)microsoft.com...
> > > If you just need to remove the excess paragraph marks (and they really are
> > > paragraph marks, which I suspect they are) you can use Find and Replace:
>
> > > Search for ^p^p and replace with ^p so at least one paragraph mark is left
> > > at the end of each paragraph. That way you can still see the paragraphs.
> > > If
> > > you really want to remove all paragraph marks, replace with nothing.
>
> > > Note that you may have to repeat the process a few times before all excess
> > > marks are replaced.
>
> > > After doing this you could replace ^p with ^p^t, a paragraph mark and a
> > > tab.
> > > That way each paragraph will start with an indent which I feel is easier
> > > to
> > > read.
>
> > > Willy
>
> > > "afdmello" wrote:
>
> > >> I have a doc from Pdf that is pasted into word and now there are many
> > >> paragraph marks and I want the text continuous can I remove them  using
> > >> find
> > >> and replace? what is the syntax to be used please
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