How do you automatically find and remove hard returns in Word? How can you easily remove paragraph marks in Microsoft Word documents?

Word documents sometimes include text copied from other sources such as a PDF, transcript, website, or other file formats. Too often, this text includes extra hard returns that require extra time to clean up the documents.

In this step-by-step Word training (see chapter links below):
• Find out how to use the Word Find and Replace features to quickly locate and remove hard returns.
• Learn how to work with special characters in a Word document.
• See how the Show/Hide option gives you more information about your documents.

VIDEO CHAPTERS (timestamps):
0:00 Introduction
0:41 Turning on Show/Hide to display hard returns
1:39 Working with Find and Replace
3:19 Creating placeholders in a Word document
4:19 Find and Replace to remove paragraph marks
5:15 Removing placeholders and final cleanup
6:23 Wrap-Up / Closing

LINKS to mentioned or related videos:
• Working with the Word Navigation Pane: https://youtu.be/LiS2mnHF7Jg
• Playlist with all my videos on Microsoft Word: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFKN-0Xwcd6kwOD2A4NFkZ5rRv4WLO-Y8

MORE Word Tips & Tricks:
Discover more Microsoft Word lessons and download free Word keyboard shortcuts handouts at https://TheSoftwarePro.com/Word.
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