Another simple macro problem

[Ulodesk]

I have recorded a macro to remove all paragraphs from a document. I would like a macro with which I can remove them from only selected text. This is useful when I receive a document with an included paragraph or more pasted from teh web or a text document, with hard line returns on all lines.

However, even though I select some text before recording the macro, it invariably operates on the entire document. I know that some macros can operate on only a selection -- I have recorded several -- but I can make sense out of the differences. The language in my recording mirrors that in ones that operate globally on the document, starting with

Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find

(although some of my macros start with Selection.WholeStory)

and end with

 
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

Every time I try to look up VBA terms, I get completely frustrated by the vast realm thereby encompassed.

I know this is really basic for anyone who has learned programming.

Thanks.

[Charles Kenyon]

It isn't basic to me, but have you tried AutoFormat?

See Cleaning up text pasted from the Web