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Old 11-25-2010, 12:54 AM   #4
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Any decent text editor? Vim? Emacs? Textmate? Notepad++? They're all free.

You could use any scripting language with regex capabilities: perl, python, sed, awk, lua, etc., probably with a one-liner.

For a text file:

Code:
perl -pe 's/([^\.])\n\n/\1 /g' filename > new-filename
would replace every double line-break following anything but a full-stop with a single space, if I'm not mistaken.

I can't stand Windows. I can't stand Word. So I'm afraid I can't help you do it there.
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