Styles "cross" or "bridge" para returns

I'm always working on Word files created by other people.

Some counterintuitive behavior I see is that the Normal style can be applied
to all (or many of) the paragraphs of a document, and the Style panel says
"Select All 1 Instance" of Normal. When I select that "one instance," the
whole document is selected.

Similarly, with replacing styles in find and replace, Replace All treats the
whole doc as one para, whereas Replace, repeated over and over will replace
para by para as expected.

Conceptually it's like this:

[Normal]¶
¶
¶
¶
¶
¶
[end Normal]

Is there a global way to make it like this:

[Normal]¶
[Normal]¶
[Normal]¶
[Normal]¶
[Normal]¶
[Normal]¶

Thanks in advance,
WilliamW

"WilliamWMeyer" <fake DeleteThis @dontharvest.com> wrote in message
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> I'm always working on Word files created by other people.
>
> Some counterintuitive behavior I see is that the Normal style can be
> applied to all (or many of) the paragraphs of a document, and the Style
> panel says "Select All 1 Instance" of Normal. When I select that "one
> instance," the whole document is selected.
>
> Similarly, with replacing styles in find and replace, Replace All treats
> the whole doc as one para, whereas Replace, repeated over and over will
> replace para by para as expected.
>
> Conceptually it's like this:
>
> [Normal]¶
> ¶
> ¶
> ¶
> ¶
> ¶
> [end Normal]
>
> Is there a global way to make it like this:
>
> [Normal]¶
> [Normal]¶
> [Normal]¶
> [Normal]¶
> [Normal]¶
> [Normal]¶
>
> Thanks in advance,
> WilliamW
>
>


I "solved" the problem I had with the particular doc that prompted me to
post this question by Saving As rtf and reopening and re-saving as Word.

The original file's problem may have been that it contained (at some point)
automatically generated references (using a program like Endnote). Or the
file might have been European, or Mac, or Mac European, who knows?







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