Searching for empty paragraphs

Pat Christenson pxenson at comcast.net
Thu Oct 4 19:50:17 PDT 2007


The problem with that is when you replace it with \p (to get rid of  
the empty), you lose the paragraph formatting you want to keep unless  
both paragraphs (the "good" one and the empty one) use the same  
format. That's what made ^\p such a good solution - you could replace  
it with nothing.

Pat

On Oct 4, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Rick Quatro wrote:

> Hi Pat,
>
> How about \P\p
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing
> 585-659-8267
> www.frameexpert.com
>
>> Hi all -
>> For years I've used the following wildcat search string to locate   
>> empty paragraphs:
>> ^\p
>> (start of line followed by paragraph ending)
>> It stopped working a couple releases ago (I believe in FM 7,  
>> maybe  earlier). Any suggestions?
>> If this doesn't work in FM, does anyone know a way of getting rid  
>> of  them in Word? I have a bunch of conversion work coming up.
>> Thanks.
>> Pat Christenson
>




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