In MS Word you can find a paragraph mark by entering ^p. It is a very useful function if you copy text that put an unwanted paragraph mark at the end of every line if it it is in the middle of a sentence.
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Tick “Regular expressions” in “Search and replace” dialog. Search for $, replace with space.
Wow, such a simple straightforward solution. I’ve been searching help forums for hours looking for help on this very issue. Thank you so much!
Hi,
I am really struggling with this issue of finding and replacing paragraph mark. The regular expression let me find and replace the paragraph mark itself, but if I am looking for a combinaison of specific characters and paragraph mark, it escape the paragraph mark.
I.e. if I want to replace “- $” by nothing (to remove the hyphen), it will only remove the "- " and keep the paragraph mark. Eventually, I did it with MS Word. Now I am trying to replace the paragraph mark without dot (i.e. [any character beside “.” + \p] by space and keep the paragraph mark with dot alike…
Suggestions?
Best regards,
Pierre
Hello. I couldn’t do this (replace a praragraph mark only when it follows a specific character - a dot-), neither with Altsearch.
Hi,
I had a similar problem: How can I replace “a paragraph mark followed by a space” with “just a paragraph mark”?
Im MS Word, this would be: replace "^p " with “^p” (leaving out the quotation marks).
In LibreOffice, I found I can do the same by saying replace “^[ ]” with nothing (leaving out the quotation marks, and enabling regular expressions). Here, ^ means start of new line, and [ ] is a single space character contained between two square brackets.
→ I am not sure why the [ ] brackets are needed to make the search-replace work properly with the space character here, where in the following cases just a normal space will work:
If you want to replace every paragraph mark with a space, you can search for “$”, which is any paragraph mark, and replace it with " " (leaving out the quotation marks, and enabling regular expressions).
If you just want to replace double paragraph marks with a space, then search for “$^” and replace with " " (leaving out the quotation marks, and enabling regular expressions).
Have tried all of the above methods multiple times and none of them ever “finds” the paragraph. Must be missing something.
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OMG: Perfect answer!!! Looked all over the web until I found this. Thanks so much. I had “double paragraph marks” all over my 500 page doc. This sentence, from above, solved my problems: “If you just want to replace double paragraph marks with a space, then search for “$^” and replace with " " (leaving out the quotation marks, and enabling regular expressions).”