How do I remove the downward arrow ("soft carriage return") in word and replace it with a hard carriage return?

Sometimes we need to copy some ArticleTo WordBut it is strange that there are often many downward arrow symbols, which is the soft carriage return symbol (in word, the soft carriage return is obtained by holding SHIFT + enter at the same time ), these soft carriage returns occupy a lot of space in word. It is too troublesome to manually delete them one by one. How can we quickly delete these soft carriage return symbols in batches?

 

Quick batch Delete soft carriage return (where^ L is lowercase of L)

Soft carriage return is a line break, also known as "manual line break ". Method:

Click "edit"> "replace" in the menu bar and enter ^ L in "search content" (or: click "special characters" below and select "manual linefeed "), "Replace with" without entering any characters, and then click "replace all" to delete the soft carriage return in the entire document.

 

Replace soft carriage return with hard carriage return

The above method only deletes all soft return vehicles, but the necessary section line breaks are still required. So the following describes how to replace soft return keys with Hard Return keys. Click "edit"> "replace" in the menu bar, enter ^ L in "search content", enter ^ P in "Replace with", and click "replace all.

We know that soft carriage return is ^ L and hard carriage return is ^ P, so we can use it flexibly. For example, we often encounter a very long document to be printed, and there are many carriage returns in the middle. If there are two carriage returns between segments, we can replace them with one. This saves a lot of space.