Here's an example of what I want to do - I will have two sentences,



1) There is a saucer hovering over the house


2) It's so close it's clipped the peak clean off the house
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All I want to do or should be able to do is place the cursor right at the end of sentence # 1 and hitting the delete key, sentence # 2 should be brought up closer to sentence #1

It's when I copy and paste that I run into this problem. Surely there is a simple way to do this and I'm not getting it. Please advise and do type slowly in order for me to understand. Thanks!

Without knowing exactly what exists between the end of 1 and the start of 2, it's impossible to say what needs to be done to 'bring them together' because:
could mean that what you're pasting is inserted as a table, for example. That's why I asked you to provide a document with some representative data. There is no way I, or anyone else for that matter, could tell from your post - or even an image of the document - what the underlying data structures are.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]