The document I'm editing was converted to .docx from a PDF. Most of the paragraph marks are followed by a tab. This is what I want but the conversion also sporadically placed paragraph marks in the middle of paragraphs. I want to search for paragraph marks that are followed by anything other than a tab. I'm trying expressions using wildcards but haven't found the right way. Any help will be appreciated.

I'm sure what you want to do could be done. However, since I am less than skilled at wildcard search and replace, I would simply replace ^p^t with xyxyxy and then search for ^p, possibly replacing with nothing or a space.

Then replace xyxyxy with ^p^t.

That is basically what I have done in the past - just trying to learn more about wildcard searches. Read through the reference but haven't figured out this combination.

For a wildcard Find of a paragraph break not followed by a tab:
Find = ^13[!^t]

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Thank you. I thought I had tried that. Maybe I forgot to check use wildcards.