Wednesday 13 October 2010

Searching for and replacing carriage returns (paragraph breaks) with line breaks in Microsoft Word

A useful tip I picked up today - you can search for carriage returns (paragraph breaks) and line breaks in Microsoft word by using the carat character (^) followed by 'p' or 'l' for paragraph or line as required.

e.g.

^p
^l

On several occasions I've pasted text into Word and hidden carriage returns in the text cause Word to display more spacing between the lines than a normal line break. Doing a simple find and replace using the above characters saves a lot of manual corrections!