Replace multiple manual line break and paragraph mark with single paragraph mark

I received long word document from another one. There are multiple line break and paragraph mark among paragraphs. I want to replace those by a single paragraph mark so that I can format the space among paragraph equally. Please give me a code or show e the quickest way to do so.

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See http://WordFAQs.mvps.org/CleanWebText.htm for general principles. Using the Find and Replace codes ^l for a line break and ^p for a paragraph break, you can make short work of excess breaks.
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