What is a line break
Line break is the end of a line of text. In Microsoft Word, it looks like this:
Line break symbol in Word is ↵.
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Why replace line break
Line breaks should be replaced with paragraph break to ensure document formats correct.
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How to replace line break with paragraph break
- Press Ctrl + h to open the Find & Replace dialog box.
- In Find what, type ^l (lowercase L)
- In Replace with, type ^p.
- Click on Replace All.
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Line breaks in the end of each line
Sometimes texts copied from a PDF file may have incorrect format. You may see that in the end of each line, there is a line break.
To fix this issue, you can replace all line breaks with nothing (leave blank).
Line break is the end of a line of text. In Microsoft Word, it looks like this:
Line break symbol in Word is ↵.
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Why replace line break
Line breaks should be replaced with paragraph break to ensure document formats correct.
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How to replace line break with paragraph break
- Press Ctrl + h to open the Find & Replace dialog box.
- In Find what, type ^l (lowercase L)
- In Replace with, type ^p.
- Click on Replace All.
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Line breaks in the end of each line
Sometimes texts copied from a PDF file may have incorrect format. You may see that in the end of each line, there is a line break.
To fix this issue, you can replace all line breaks with nothing (leave blank).
Updated on: 09 / 24 / 2021