word 2000 doc...removing hard returns

[Guest]

I really need help. A client has many docs. that she used hard returns and needs to remove all of them. The docs were created in word 2000 and doesn't want to retype all her work. Help!

 

[Graham Mayor]

A wildcard search for
^13([!^13])
replace with
<space>\1
where <space> means press the space bar.
This should do it, but you will probably have to remove a
few double spaces also
wildcard replace
([ ^13])[ ]
with
\1
Don't forget CTRL+Z will undo if it doesn't look right

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[Jezebel]

use find and replace, or autoformat.

I really need help. A client has many docs. that she used hard returns

and needs to remove all of them. The docs were created in word 2000 and
doesn't want to retype all her work. Help!