How to remove paragraph symbols for every line in Word

Word 2016
Often when you paste a formatted text to your document Word, it can be pasted with two or more paragraph symbols in every line. You can easily remove these paragraph symbols.

For example:

Example of paragraph symbols for every line in Word 365

To remove the extra paragraph symbols, do the following:

   1.   Select the text in which you want to remove symbols.

By default, the symbols will be removed from the whole document.

   2.   On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Replace:

Replace in Word 365

Or click Ctrl+H.

   3.   In the Find and Replace dialog box:

Find and Replace more options in Word 365
  • In the Find what field enter two paragraph marks (^p^p) or select Paragraph Mark two times from the Special list:
    Find special character in Word 365
  • Leave the field Replace with empty.

After clicking Replace All, all extra paragraph symbols will be removed:

Example of paragraph symbols in Word 365

See more about Replacing special characters.

See also this tip in French: Comment supprimer des symboles de paragraphe pour chaque ligne.

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