I can't figure out what character to search to strip out extra normal paragraph returns in my illustrator file. ^p has always worked in the past in InDesign. On the pull down, it only shows the characgter for a forced line break. I've googled high and low... the answer will be appreciated.
OK, I think I might have figured out a way. This is based on if you have two returns after a paragraph instead of one. Make sure your hidden characters are showing in your text. Now select only the paragraph symbol immediately following the end of a word, plus the extra paragraph symbols below them and copy them (you should have copied 3 paragraph symbols). Now open up your find and replace window in Illustrator, and paste that in the find field. It will appear blank. That is ok. Now in the Replace With field type a space, then type "^n^n" without the quotation marks. Click Find, then "Replace All".
Hi I'm having the same issue. Nothing in the menu. I've usually done what Mr. Gold mentions (copy and paste the invisible return), but that doesn't seem to do the trick either.
I am using 25.1 on a Windows 10 machine (Windows 10 Pro, v 10.0.19041). I tried it on two different PCs, so maybe it's a PC issue? Can't think of what carat would represent a paragraph return. I'm pretty sure I had done this in years past, on both PC and Mac. So still stumped.
For this case, I've already bitten the bullet and manually changed everything I needed to, but would be great to have this tool working.
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