Hello,

I have a document that has a number of weird circumstances where there are three paragraph marks that I would like to delete to fix some spacing (Actually to replace with a single paragraph mark). I used [^13]{3} in the find and replace box and it doesn't find the things I am looking for. Attached is a picture showing the paragraph markings, the 2nd had a small box next to it that I believe indicates there is a style applied, and I suspect is the source of my problem.



If it helps any, I can see on the navigation pane that there is a heading listed with no content within it. I am trying to find a solution I can migrate to VBA.

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Are you using wildcards?

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Greg Maxey
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Maybe a blank space? try find ^p ^p^p replace with ^p

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Backup your original file before doing any modification.

Yes, I am using wildcards.

The square box indicates that one of the paragraph pagination settings is turned on (either keep with next, keep lines together or page break before). It is not relevant to your search and replace failing.

You might have tracked revisions sitting in there though which breaks up the three consecutive paragraph marks. Can you verify if there is any tracked revisions in the document?

Also, the content could be protected in some way - locked Content Controls, grouped text or document forms protection for instance.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia