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Click to expand.I do that from time to time for other things, either a space or a dot. I should have expressed myself better. I copy forum threads related to my line of work from Firefox to Word.
There are phrases like 'Leave a comment' and they take up a line by themselves. After every reply in the thread, there is this phrase and I end up hundreds of lines with only this phrase. That's what I'm trying to delete. The phrase and the unnecessary line space it takes. If I replace them with something, anything, the line still stays there.
Hope I've made myself clearer this time. Maybe I didn't make my suggestion clear enough. Find and Replace is functionally identical to Find and Delete if you enter nothing into the Replace field. Everything that matches the Find criteria will disappear. If a complete line is to be deleted, and you end the Find criteria with ^l (caret+lower case L), that entire line and the space it occupies will disappear, and the rest of the document will move up one line. If you're going to end up with unneeded double spaces, enter ^l twice at the end of the Find phrase.
Maybe I didn't make my suggestion clear enough. Find and Replace is functionally identical to Find and Delete if you enter nothing into the Replace field. Everything that matches the Find criteria will disappear. If a complete line is to be deleted, and you end the Find criteria with ^l (caret+lower case L), that entire line and the space it occupies will disappear, and the rest of the document will move up one line. If you're going to end up with unneeded double spaces, enter ^l twice at the end of the Find phrase. Click to expand.drambuie - Thank you.
I followed yr advice and got halfway thru. Please bear with me. I'm trying to delete 'Share' along with the line it occupies. (as you put it correctly) I went to EditFindReplace. When I enter 'share' in Find and leave Replace blank, it deletes 'share' but leaves a blank line there. But, I can't get the deleting line part to work. If I enter 'share^l' in Find, nothing happens.
If I enter 'share' in Find and enter '^l' in Replace, still the word is gone but the empty line is there. Where am I going wrong? Drambuie - Thank you. I followed yr advice and got halfway thru. Please bear with me.
I'm trying to delete 'Share' along with the line it occupies. (as you put it correctly) I went to EditFindReplace. When I enter 'share' in Find and leave Replace blank, it deletes 'share' but leaves a blank line there.
But, I can't get the deleting line part to work. If I enter 'share^l' in Find, nothing happens. If I enter 'share' in Find and enter '^l' in Replace, still the word is gone but the empty line is there.
Where am I going wrong? Click to expand.Turn on the ¶ mode (Show all non printing characters), so your document shows all the hidden characters as a symbol, like space and return. Then it is easier to highlight and copy them into the Advanced Replace window.
Just leave the 'Replace with' field blank to delete, don't put a space in there or anything, just blank. I've been doing this in Word and Excel since the early 90s, almost daily. If you do this enough, you'll get used to how it works and you won't need the ¶ mode, anymore.