How to make lines fill with text?

I have a text document whose contents I want to copy into Word. But upon pasting, all the lines break off and continue on the next line, before using up their line's maximum available space. E.g.:

"First word second

word

third word fourth word fifth

word sixth word

seventh

word"

Whereas I'd like them to run normally, to the full capacity of the line:

"First word second word third word fourth word fifth word sixth word seventh word"

How can I obtain that result, aside from tedious pressing of Backspace at each line?

Thanks.

Answer
Answer
Each of the lines you pasted in ends with either a paragraph mark or a manual line break. You can use the Replace All function to change them to spaces, but there's a little extra work to do to prevent changing the breaks that separate the real paragraphs of text. Read http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/CleanWebText.htm for instructions.
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Last updated January 25, 2025 Views 6,604 Applies to: