how to replace a full paragraph with blanks?

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how to replace a full paragraph with blanks?

10-22-2012, 11:18 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dylansmith

the 2nd wildcard format didn't work - it made 0 replacements.

Did you check the 'use wildcards' option?

Quote:

another problem i have is :

e.g.

question A

question B

question C

i want to turn it to :

question A
question B
question C

If it's just a matter of empty intervening paragraphs, try a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = [^13]{2,}
Replace = ^p

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