Hi Ulodesk,

The wildcard Find/Replace sequence I posted takes care of the space issues. Here's how it works:
Find = ([!^13])([^13])([!^13])
Finds any paragraph break that's has a character other than a paragraph break both before and after it. The three sets of parentheses tell Word that the Find expression has three components we want to keep track of.
Replace = \1 \3
Replaces the found paragraph break with a space, keeping the characters before and after. The \1 and \3 correspond with the first and third parentheses from the Find expression.
Find = ([ ])[ ]{1,}
Find a space character followed by one or more additional space characters. The {1,} tells Word that the preceding expression applies to one or more characters.
Replace = \1
Keeps the first space only.
Find = [^13]{2,}
Find any two or more paragraph breaks (note: we can't use ^p in a wildcard Find).
Replace = ^p
Replace with only a single paragraph break (note: using ^13 in a wildcard Replace doesn't create proper paragraph breaks - just line breaks that look like them).
Find = [ ^13]
Find any paragraph break preceded by a space.
Replace = ^p
Replace with only the paragraph break.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]