deleting paragraph marks

I just pasted some text into Pages 5.5.1 and the text ended up having a paragraph forced mark at the end of every line. Does anyone know how to get rid of this?? the text originated in a PDF that came from scanning a typed manuscript that I want to be able to edit. In Acrobat Pro, I selected the option to make it editable... and then I selected all, and copied, and then pasted into Pages. My goal is to be able to take this manuscript of about 150 typed pages and edit it... so if there are other suggestions than the PDF in Acrobat, that's great too. but in the meantime... how do I get rid of these paragraph marks!? thanks much. working on MBP 15 inch, mid 2012, with Yosemite.

Posted on Nov 25, 2014 6:43 PM

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mbpellie Author

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Sep 12, 2016 4:37 PM in response to Drew Reece

Sorry for confusion. I had added a new request recently about a new problem in this thread, because it also related to that 2014 post about paragraph marks.

As I said, couldn't do a find and replace because of the styles, which I use often and know how to use.

went through and deleted the paragraph marks that needed deleting and fixed all with the styles.

Thanks everyone!

VikingOSX

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Nov 26, 2014 8:34 AM in response to mbpellie

Do you get the same (pilcrow proliferation) results when you choose Paste, or Paste with Matching Style from the PDF into Pages v5.5.1?

mbpellie Author

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Nov 26, 2014 9:18 AM in response to VikingOSX

VikingOSX yes. it does the same thing.

Peter and Ian -- I'm going to now try what you suggested. thanks everyone!

mbpellie Author

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Sep 12, 2016 2:24 PM in response to Yellowbox

thanks Ian -- see my note I just posted. I appreciated your very clear illustrations though!!

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