Edit | Replace

” ^p” with “^p” (to remove extra spaces at the end of paragraphs) “^p^p” with “^p” (to remove extra line spaces) “^l” with “^p” (to replace manual line breaks with paragraph returns)

I also use commands like replacing “”" with “”" or “‘” with “‘” to make present quotation marks curly quotes. I do the same thing for ellipses, dashes, etc.

I think it’s possible to replace the manual line breaks before an AutoFormat to avoid some of the steps above.

If you copy something from a Web site or elsewhere… or you reuse a document and the formatting is making you crazy with its weirdness, then stop the insanity. The first option to make the document behave loses some of…