Removing Extra Paragraph Marks

There may be times when you are working with a document when you have a need to remove extra paragraph marks. This is particularly true if you are working with an ASCII file or a file that may have originally been formatted with another word processor. This process of manually removing extra paragraph marks can be very time consuming.

If you find yourself in this situation, you may find this macro of interest. It removes extra paragraph marks from a document. When it is completed, there should not be even two paragraph marks in a row in your document.

Sub ReplacePara()
    Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "^p^p"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    While Selection.Find.Found
        Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
        Selection.TypeBackspace
        Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=2
        Selection.Find.Execute
    Wend
End Sub