Wow, thank you for your detailed response and the macro Graham. When I select the references list at the end of the document and run the macro, it seems to remove all line breaks. What I'm looking for is to only remove line breaks followed by a lowercase letter.

For example, imagine that the user has these two reference entries in his/her references list:

De Jean, J., Upitis, R., Koch, C., & Young, J. (1999). The story of Phoenix Quest: How girls respond to a
prototype language and mathematics computer game. Gender and Education, 11(2).

Smith, X. Y. (2015). Some title. Some publication info.

Users often enter manual line breaks, as seen in the first reference entry above (manual line break after "respond to a"). These breaks cause problems with alignment, prevent alphabetization of the list, and cause other problems.

So the original find and replace will take care of this issue, but having it as a macro would help because I could add it into a larger macro that I'm compiling to do some formatting to references lists to save me time.

Any way to adjust the macro to just catch the breaks followed by a lowercase letter?

Thanks you again for your thoughtful reply.