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Old 02-09-2011, 08:20 AM   #9
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This is a bit of a kludgy, 3 step solution, but it should work and it uses Word's search and replace rather than Regex or a scripting language.

1) Replace all double paragraphs with some nonsense text, e.g.
Replace ^p^p with "zxzxqwqw".

2) Replace all full stops followed by your nonsense text with a full stop followed by a double paragraph, e.g.
Replace ".zxzxqwqw" with .^p^p

3) Replace all remaining nonsense text with a space, e.g.
Replace "zxzxqwqw" with " "

I've tried it on a couple of short samples and it seems to work OK, but be sure to take a backup before trying it on a large scale!

Ian
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