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Q: In my document, all lines end with a carriage return, even if they don't end a paragraph. What can I do to reconstruct a normal text flow?

A: There is no absolute answer, but a global FR can do most of the job; a last manual verification will restore paragraphs that are unduly cut. See the other, smarter, macro-based alternative in Appendix III, "[[From Text to Doc: a smarter approach Wordfast Classic|Text to Doc]]".
{|style="font-size: 9pt"
|-
|Find what ||^p^p
|-
|Replace with ||<!?a$
|}

The above FR will preserve double paragraph marks (replacing them into a very unlikeky sequence of characters, which we here call a code)
{|style="font-size: 9pt"
|-
|Find what ||^p
|Replace with
|}
The above FR will turn all single paragraph marks into a space. A space has to be entered in the "Replace with" argument.
{|style="font-size: 9pt"
|-
|Find what ||<!?a$
|-
|Replace with ^||p^p
|}
The above FR will restore double hard carriage returns.

This is a typical three-pass FR example. Note that when using wildcards, Ms-Word no longer accepts some characters such as ^p (hard carriage return), so two- or three-pass FR actions are often necessary to bypass this limitation.

But hey, wait a minute...

Actually, a one-pass FR can achieve just the same result, but don't tell anyone, because it's a secret:
{|style="font-size: 9pt"
|-
|Find what || ([!^0013])([^0013])([!^0013])
|-
|Replace with ||\1 \3
|-
|Use Wildcards

''(Note the space after \1)'' Amazing, right? Be cautious though – on some Ms-Word versions, ^0013 introduces a new line but not necessarily a ''paragraph'', as surprising as this may seem… Use this geeky method if you’re a geek yourself and know what you’re doing.
Back to [[Wordfast Classic User Manual]]

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 ''(Note the space after \1)'' Amazing, right? Be cautious though – on some Ms-Word versions, ^0013 introduces a new line but not necessarily a ''paragraph'', as surprising as this may seem… Use this geeky method if you’re a geek yourself and know what you’re doing.
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 A: There is no absolute answer, but a global FR can do most of the job; a last manual verification will restore paragraphs that are unduly cut. See the other, smarter, macro-based alternative in Appendix III, "[[From Text to Doc: a smarter approach Wordfast Classic|Text to Doc]]".
-{|style="font-size: 9pt"
+{|
 |-
 |Find what	||^p^p
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 The above FR will preserve double paragraph marks (replacing them into a very unlikeky sequence of characters, which we here call a code)
-{|style="font-size: 9pt"
+{|
 |-
 |Find what	||^p
 |Replace with
 |}
 The above FR will turn all single paragraph marks into a space. A space has to be entered in the "Replace with" argument.
-{|style="font-size: 9pt"
+{|
 |-
 |Find what	||<!?a$
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 Actually, a one-pass FR can achieve just the same result, but don't tell anyone, because it's a secret:
-{|style="font-size: 9pt"
+{|
 |-
 |Find what	|| ([!^0013])([^0013])([!^0013])