How do I get rid of soft returns when exporting text?

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May 31, 2022
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I'm trying to take the text from a document for use online and no matter how I export it I am still getting the soft returns. Is there a workaround?

Right now, here's what I am doing. I click within the text, go to file > export and choose text only.

I have also tried running the "ExportAllStories" script but I get the soft returns that way as well.

How to

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Correct answer Peter Spier

I would use Find/Change on a COPY of the file to replace forced line breaks with spaces, then replace multiple spaces with single spaces (hard to know if the line breaks already have spaces).

Peter Spier

Correct answer

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I would use Find/Change on a COPY of the file to replace forced line breaks with spaces, then replace multiple spaces with single spaces (hard to know if the line breaks already have spaces).