How to remove formatting - paragraphs

[Guest]

I copied from a pdf and pasted to a word doc, and asked that formatting be as
in target document. Word removed formatting except paragraphs (the para marks
were visible) so I had to go through one by one and delete a para mark at
nearly every line (because the pdf had been in a journal with columns in my
guess at why there were so many para marks.) How can I remove these more
efficiently. As mentioned, "clear formatting" in styles did not do the trick.

 

[Guest]

The paragraph breaks are probably manual line breaks. If so:

try:
[EDIT]
[REPLACE]
IN THE FIND BOX TYPE "^l" that's a lower case L
click on [REPLACE ALL]

If not, THIS WILL REMOVE ALL PARAGRAPH BREAKS try:
[EDIT]
[REPLACE]
in the FIND box type "^p"
click on [REPLACE ALL]