I agree totally that it is currently a case of trial and error, my expression above worked for me but in the wizard it didn't highlight the text I wanted to remove! I have a feeling that if the text contains a <\p><p> then finding a term to match the phrase and then replacing the two paragraph markers with
(<p>) will work provided that it is not itself enclosed in paranthasis. I haven't tried this though as I only convert one book at a time and then read it.
It would seem that the problem comes from the fact that the view presented in the wizard does not correspond to the point were the expression is applied! To save messing around most of the time I convert the file 'as is' to RTF format and remove the oddities using wildcards using msword's 'find & replace'. Then tidy the format by making titles into Header1 format Chapters into Header 2 format and then use Callibre again to convert the RTF to the required format. It's more roundabout but works out quicker
