How to Remove Blank Lines from MSWord Documents EASILY

How to Remove Blank Lines from MSWord Documents EASILY



How to Remove Blank Lines from MS Word Document

Several empty lines appear in the document downloaded from the web (manual line breaks). Getting rid of empty lines will save us paper and space.

It takes quite a bit of time to remove extra blank lines in a Microsoft Word document. What is the easiest way to remove all empty lines without deleting them individually? In this tutorial, we will show you three ways of removing all empty lines in a document or selection of documents: Here’s how to do it using Find and Replace option in Microsoft Word.

Each time you hit Enter in Microsoft Word, a hidden tag (called a "paragraph tag") is attached to the end of the line.




Word's "Find and Replace" command lets you replace the double paragraph tags with a single tag.


Click "Find and Replace" to open the window.

There is a special code for the paragraph tag, each of which is "^p". Each time there are two-paragraph tags in a row, we will replace them with a single-paragraph tag

Steps to remove blank lines.

Type ^p^p for find what box and type ^p In the “Replace With” box

Click “Replace All”

 The page looks like below 


The blank lines that you still see again here indicate that, there have been more than two consecutive blank lines as shown below.



In such cases, REPEAT click "Replace All" in the "Find and Replace" window until all the extra lines are removed.

Finally, the document will be as follows.


Click Ok and close the Find Replace window and save your file.

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Reference: WIKIPEDIA

The pilcrow ¶ is a typographical character that marks the start of a paragraph. It is also called the paragraph mark (or sign or symbol), paraph, or blind P. The pilcrow may be used at the start of separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1931 book An Essay on Typography. The pilcrow was a type of rubrication used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of visually discrete paragraphs was commonplace. The pilcrow is usually drawn similar to a lowercase q reaching from descender to ascender height; the bowl (loop) can be filled or unfilled. It may also be drawn with the bowl stretching further downwards, resembling a reversed D; this is more often seen in older printing.
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