How do you remove several paragraph breaks in Pages?

This question was asked before but the thread was closed because it was old. The answer did not resolve the problem I was having so I am posting this in case it may help others.

Problem:

I pasted in a long list of 1500 items that had 2 manual paragraph breaks between each line and I only wanted one. In MS Word you could easily select or even copy and paste 2 paragraph breaks and replace them with 1 paragraph break/marker. This doesn't work in Pages.

Here is a simple solution:

Hit Command-F to prompt Find and replace

In the Find field enter: \n\n

In the Replace field enter: \n

This will replace 2 paragraph breaks with 1 paragraph break.

The \n character is used to create a newline in various programming languages.