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how to remove blank lines

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August 29, 2026
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Hello,

In this example I would like to delete all the blank lines between the lines of text, or after the last line of text. How to do it ?

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The first paragraph return will need to be manually deleted.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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The first paragraph return will need to be manually deleted.

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@Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Thank you Dave for the video. It helped me how to do.

I understand that instead of using the “find” button, you use several times the “change all” button. So I have simply used several times the button “change all” and it worked (without doing anything else).

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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What exactly is happening? It looks like it selected to paragraph symbols. Did you continually press Change All?

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pierret18811376Author

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@Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Here is a video showing the problem : it does not select the 2 paragraph symbols after each line of text.

frame maker find replace.mp4

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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You are not pressing the Change All button multiple times.

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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You can use a regular expression for find/change.

In GREP, it would be find: \r\r+

Replace with: \r

Note: the default in the find regular expression is Perl, not GREP, so it would need to be changed.

For an easier method, you can use the standard find option.

Find: \p\p

Change: \p

Repeat change all until it can’t find anymore.

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pierret18811376Author

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@Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Hi Dave,

I have just tried to use your second solution (with \p\p), but it does not works. Why ?

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