Copying PDF to Word - Removing extra spaces and line breaks

When you copy text from a PDF to Word you often get extra carriages returns and spaces. In this video I will show you the fast way to remove extra paces and line breaks from your Word document.

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[DrLyndonWalker]

I have just published a video on how to do this for copying PDF to Google Docs. I hope it helps.

[nomadiclee]

Saved me hours of mindlessly clicking on individual lines and fixing it myself lol. Absolutely fantastic, thank you!

[leibaleibovich]

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant reminder!
This deserves to be framed and placed on the wall. How much time I have wasted, dealing with line breaks and extra spaces.

[LetterfromourDearGod]

Brilliant! I have searched for a solution for this issue for so long, and finally a solution that actually works!

[ashleymedds]

this is going to seriously save me hours and hours at work. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[neilcglad]

Thank you for the reminder on how to speed up the work of editing.

[northerntraveller]

You are a damn genius sir, saved me hours of irritation

[willcosta]

The trick with the ^p just saved me... thank you!

[sodychan]

Really you don't know how you help us just thumbs up. Thanks

[MahayanaIDugast]

Thank you SO much Dr Lyndon Walker, brilliant!

[acebasein]

Thank you very much. Really nice tips 👏🙏🏼

[DanielLaRusso-Do]

Is there any advice for a multiparaggraphed text?

[TrainDBrain]

thank you so much the only solution that worked for me

[rafaella]

Thank you for such helpful video! Is there another way that will work for google docs as this method unfortunately doesn't work there

[grantflashdance]

replace ^p with a single space; replace all. thank you!

[komalhayat]

for me, it shows ''one replacement'' only

[belindafitzgerald]

Why didn't I google this years ago?

[DAVIDEAGOSTINI-jl]

that's awesome but I can't find "edit" on my word page

[kellinashrowan]

But how to do this in an excell sheet ?!

[thomasward]

It says ^p is not a recognized character?