Quoting ROBERT LIDGREN in a message to ALL
  concerning "STRIPPING PARAGRAPH MARKE" in the MS_WORD conference..
RL>           Yes, I KNOW it can be done by manually deleting every one
  >           of the little buggers (except for "normal" paragraph
  >           breaks) but I'd like some way to do it globally for the
  >           entire document.                       ^^^^^^^^
RL>           Have any of you folks been able to solve this problem?
'Edit/Replace' them with a space and then re-format it into actual 
paragraphs?  Worked nicely for me a few times.
Take care.
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  "Glenn Menzie"         sysop@f114.n250.z1.fidonet.org
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