Removing blank spaces from the lines upon import

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August 5, 2019
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Dear friends,

Good evening! I can't be grateful enough for all the selfless support that I get at this forum. I hope one day i will be good enough to help out as well. Thank you again for all your kind help. Here is a screenshot upon importing a document, all the lines are being split...

It's a very long document and I can's keep pressing the delete button to put the lines together that are being split.

Is there a way to do this automatically?

Thank you again...

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chi wail72431016Author

Inspiring

Here are the hidden characters...

actually, there seem to be two kinds, the returns in the green box need to stay just the way they are...as they are actually the end of short sentences

the returns in the blue box need to be removed as they are from the sentences being split in half...

Steve Werner

Community Expert

The text in the blue box looks that it originated as a text-only file in which paragraph returns were arbitrarily inserted after a certain number of characters.

For example, I just went to Project Gutenberg, and copied from a text version of "Alice in Wonderland". It came in exactly the same way as yours when I opened it in InDesign. The paragraph returns were not inserted by InDesign. They were already in the text when you imported it into InDesign.

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Diane Burns

Inspiring

Yes, please post with Show Invisibles on (Type menu > Show/Hide Invisibles). Assuming there is a character there, you may be able to use Find/Change to remove. Once we see the characters, we can tell more.