Hi Cobb,

You can achieve that by saving the document as an RTF file, then opening it in WordPad. Make an edit of any kind in WordPad, then re-save the file. When you re-open the file in Word, all the content will then have the 'Normal' Style applied, with direct formatting to create the character effects. You can then delete the paragraph breaks without any character format changes.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]