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Old 04-22-2012, 08:39 PM
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Hi Mark,

The following macro cleans up text pasted from emails, websites, etc, that insert paragraph breaks at the end of every line. Note that the code assumes there are at least two such paragraph breaks between the 'real' paragraphs.
Code:
Sub CleanUpPastedText()
'Turn Off Screen Updating
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With ActiveDocument.Range.Find
  .ClearFormatting
  .Replacement.ClearFormatting
  .Forward = True
  .Wrap = wdFindStop
  .Format = False
  .MatchAllWordForms = False
  .MatchSoundsLike = False
  .MatchWildcards = True
  'Eliminate spaces & tabs before paragraph breaks.
  .Text = "[ ^s^t]{1,}^13"
  .Replacement.Text = "^p"
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  'Replace single paragraph breaks with a space
  .Text = "([!^13])([^13])([!^13])"
  .Replacement.Text = "\1 \3"
  'Replace all double spaces with single spaces
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  .Text = "[ ]{2,}"
  .Replacement.Text = " "
  'Delete hypens in hyphenated text formerly split across lines
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  .Text = "([a-z])-[ ]{1,}([a-z])"
  .Replacement.Text = "\1\2"
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  'Limit paragraph breaks to one per 'real' paragraph.
  .Text = "[^13]{1,}"
  .Replacement.Text = "^p"
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
'Restore Screen Updating
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
For PC macro installation & usage instructions, see: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
For Mac macro installation & usage instructions, see: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/InstallMacro.html

If you'd prefer to run the macro against just a selected range, change:
ActiveDocument
to:
Selection
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