Is it possible to convert paragraph breaks in Word to line breaks?

Question

When I paste text from Eclipse into Word, it puts each line on its own paragraph. Manually correcting these to line-breaks (shift+enter) is a hassle, is it possible to automate this? I'm using Word 2008 for Mac if that makes a difference (but would like to know this for other versions of Word too if they differ).

Answer 1

You can use search and replace to effectively convert those paragraph marks to soft line breaks. Select the text first and then open the Find and Replace dialog box. Put the focus on the Find what text box and then click on More to expand the box. From the bottom click on Special and then select Paragraph Marks.

This will place the code for a paragraph break in the Find what box.

Enter a space in the Replace with box. This will replace every paragraph break with a space and wrap the lines. Click on Replace All. If you’ve selected a portion of the document, be careful about letting Word replace all the other paragraph marks in the file.

You may want to do this to one paragraph at a time so that you don’t wind up with one huge paragraph.